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Scammers Almost Duped Australian Travel Firm Out of Almost $200K Via Email
- Stuff.co.nz, Tuesday, September 8, 2015 7:11 AM
Scammers almost tricked an Australian travel company into sharing $192,000 by targeting a top executive at the company. The company's email security company SMX suffered an attack and which led SMX to send out a warning to its clients. The CFO of the company saw the email and assumed it was legitimate and almost sent the wire to an overseas bank. The scammers even purchased a similar domain name and spoofed the email addresses of the security firm.
