Foreign trade fraud! A foreign trade enterprise in Shanghai lost nearly 300000 yuan!

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2019-06-13

A few days ago, there has been a fraud case of "high imitation E-mail" against foreign trade companies, issuing false emails by imitating the E-mail accounts exchanged between business partners, asking the victimized enterprises to remit money.

Recently, Ms. Wang, the finance of a foreign trade company, encountered such a situation. A "highly imitated email" cost her more than 300000 yuan.This kind of scam is really hard to prevent. Foreign trade freight forwarding enterprises should pay attention to it and everyone should forward it.

The cooperative unit sent an email saying that the collection account number should be changed.

Ms. Wang is a financial staff member of a foreign trade company in Shanghai. The company has a lot of overseas business, because of the time difference, so rarely make phone calls, most of the time is through e-mail communication.

One day, she sent and received emails as usual, and suddenly found that a "partner" had sent a new email, saying that due to internal adjustments in the company, the collection account had changed, and Ms. Wang was asked to put the payment into a new bank account.

Because it is a unit that has cooperated many times, Ms. Wang believes it. After reporting to the leaders for approval, more than 300000 yuan was transferred to the changed bank account number.

Ms. Wang later contacted the staff of the other company by phone to inquire about the receipt of the money, but the other party said that she had not sent any emails recently and had not received any money.

How Corporate Finances Are Cheated

The E-mail of the real customer is xxx@coi.com, while the E-mail sent by the scammer is xxx@cio.com, and the letter' o' and 'I' have changed positions.

外贸诈骗！令上海一家外贸企业损失近30万余元！

The scammers "hacked" the victimized company E-mail and stole E-mail content. From this, he learned about the financial and business dealings between the victimized company and the cooperative unit. After that, the swindler forged a "high imitation E-mail" to request to change the collection account number and implement the fraud.

Why do liars often succeed?

They are all hacker technicians with high computer capabilities. Usually, after the swindler targets the target (foreign trade enterprises), they will "lurk" in the internal network of the enterprise for a long time and invade the E-mail of foreign trade companies through number stealing software or Trojan horse viruses.

After consulting and analyzing the contents of the relevant transfer and remittance emails, using the stolen information, registering a "high-simulation electronic E-mail", and then contacting it in the name of an overseas cooperative company, requesting the foreign trade enterprise to remit the relevant payment to the account provided by it on the grounds of payment for goods, so as to achieve the purpose of defrauding money. This technique is very confusing and difficult to find without careful discrimination.

Precaution Reminder

1. If you suddenly receive an email about the change of the customer's receiving bank and account number on the eve of the remittance, please be on high alert. Remember to carefully check the electronic E-mail address of the other party and confirm it by telephone, fax, video and other means to ensure that the transfer and remittance are correct.

2. Do a good job in daily self-examination of computers and E-mail. Update and upgrade the security software regularly to ensure the confidentiality of communication. Regularly check and kill Trojans and viruses, enhance the security factor of electronic E-mail passwords and change passwords regularly. Pay attention to check whether the functions of electronic E-mail letter classification and automatic forwarding are normal. Do not easily click on the mail of unknown origin, or open the link in the suspicious mail, so as to avoid the computer being implanted Trojan horse.

3. If you find that you have been cheated, please call the police as soon as possible and contact the remittance bank to issue a cancellation order or freeze the relevant funds in a timely manner, so as to strive for stop-loss prime time and reduce the loss to a minimum.

I would like to remind the vast number of foreign trade friends that we must pay attention to network prevention and protection of private information, and we must pay attention to verification of the information sent by our partners to avoid falling into traps and causing huge losses to companies and individuals.

The Fourth Council of the Fourth Session of the China Textile Federation analyzed the situation and believed that the industry has sufficient confidence and confidence to cope with the changes in trade.

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