Internet fraudsters often pretend to be colleagues or friends to get money. According to security experts, the million euro scamming of a Dutch chain of movie theaters, pulled off by a fake CEO, was no exception. Fraudsters also often convince regular citizens to transfer large amounts of money.
Dick Steffens is a business detective and notes a spike in the number of scams in recent years. “In a recent case, a multinational transferred €50,000 to Hong Kong. They received an e-mail from their own administration stating that they needed to pay for an invoice. The company asked us to get to the bottom of it, but the money was already transferred.”
According to Steffens, the people doing this know the ins and outs of a company. “You need to have a sense for business and you need to know how to funnel money. Most of the time the money goes through Poland first and is then transferred to other countries”, Steffens says.
The business detective works together with an Israeli company that can track down and sees the content of bank accounts across the globe. “When you are being scammed, you need to act fast. We can always track down the bank account and, with some luck, the money will still be there.”
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Source: De Telegraaf