Nearly fell for a scam that would have cost the business lots and I mean lots(more than 1000 sets of shocks and parts ) . It goes like this : I have a shipment ready in Thailand waiting to be shipped . As always we transfer the funds when the final Proforma invoice gets E-mailed from the factory . Same yesterday , normal procedure . I checked all the figures and then forwarded it to the bank for TT processing . Then I get a call from the bank , asking, if I am sure to proceed . Why not , I said. " The beneficiary and account has changed just slightly" from the usual data ,the manager said . Hmm , I will check . Sure enough . I called the factory and asked to send me another copy by fax > All the numbers and letters where as usual and not like the E-mailed version .Hmm that when the alarm bells went off ....My IT people and the IT people on the other end started searching . To cut a long story short , a very professional hacker organisation has entered the Thai server and blocked my account and the factories account . Then they intercepted all mails , modified them and then forwarded them both ways as normal mails . Now it made sense why the mails took more than 30 minutes every time, lately. It was done so well , I fell for it and only thanks to the alert person at the bank, the funds were not lost . Just proves, those people are getting better and better at it. Finding them would be nearly impossible . A bloke that robes a bank would get 10 years and those people would only get a slap on the wrist ( if ever caught) Funny imbalanced world we have now ...
