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swift action of the police, the National Cyber ​​Security Centre (NCSC) and the fraud Helpdesk several dozen Dutch companies spared CEO fraud. The NCSC had received a tip that dozens fraud mails were sent to companies and reported it to the police. The companies concerned have subsequently approached individually. It is important that companies stay alert, because the fraud emails are still in circulation. This reports the Fraud Helpdesk

Method

The CEO fraud mail to employees of a company’s financial department sent with the request urgently can be paid a bill. These are usually for substantial amounts. The intention is that the employee return email and then receive information which the payment should be transferred to. To the mails to be credible they are sent from a domain that closely resembles that of legitimate businesses, but with a small addition (in this case en-), so & lt;

nl-organisatienaam.com & gt ;. Because the messages are sent from a domain that closely resembles that of legitimate businesses, the mails are very credible.

Warning

In order to avoid companies would transfer real money have the police, the banks ( Electronic Crimes Task Force), the Fraud Helpdesk and the National Cyber ​​ Security Centre beaten quickly joined forces and are the companies that received the e-mails had -some tientallen- called to warn them.

many companies mails had already been recognized as fraud slogan, but had some companies already waiting payments according to police. Fortunately, this payment could be canceled.