Such messages Finnish companies can go fishing for the money – look, would you fall have

the Companies against online scams are still common. State cyber security center will already have daily notifications, for example, the delivery manager scams.

Those criminals approached the company money transport equivalent employees and usually occurs as a director. The purpose is to get the employee to pay for a fake invoice or to make other transfers, which end up in hustler.

central criminal police and trafi ' s according to the new phenomenon has emerged that the scammers targeted also associations, churches, libraries and educational institutions.

– Such scams are relatively easy to implement. Target use whatever moves money, trafi ' s security expert Juha Tretyakov said.

Yle asked the trafic own, from the police and the Finnish Entrepreneurs examples of scam messages, which jobs will come. The message spectrum is huge, but in a certain way, you play the most. These five scam message anyone should know:

in This example, the scam is trying to get a Gmail email address look like, the Finnish company email address.Eetu Pietarinen / Yle

One of the usual means of scam of the toolbox is to replicate your business email address.

in This example, the "sender" email addresses are embedded into a free Gmail address. It can work especially if the recipient considers the message from the sender only and not read the sender's email address altogether.

There are situations where for a long time the company had the employee's noticed he's being cheated until after the police have reported it.

Marko Leponen

cunning than means is. If the victim's email address is, say, firma.com, a scam can be a distraction due to send messages from the address firrna.com, f1rma.com or firma.net.

the picture Above shows another fraudsters fundamental way, i.e. hire a scam. In the scam occur as an employee, with a salary payment account, he announces his own account.

the company scams are more sophisticated than the traditional nigerian scams, which were based on the widest possible distribution. Nigerian scam is deliberately tacky, so that it would correspond to only one user, which can be fooled until the end.

company scam setups is another. Scam doing research and find out, for example, the management team or the financial management of the similar name.

Cheat to make up a story gift card, so this would be done without too much issues.Eetu Pietarinen / Yle

the delivery director of the scams are typically part of international crime. Because of this, they were directed in Finland, especially at first English-speaking companies or were linguistically clumsy. Advanced translation programs, however, facilitate the fraudsters life year by year.

in Recent years, the delivery director of the scam hit product have risen gift card scams (you move to another service), which led to the level of the person as a performer scam to give the employee the task of buying online gift cards.

Scams timing is often christmas, when especially in the united states to pay to the employees christmas bonuses. In finland, the phenomenon is more foreign, but the cultural differences did not prevent fraudsters from trying here too.

the Victim may be mislead not to tell anybody about a gift card for the purchase of invoking confidentiality and surprising perfection. Sometimes the scam instructs the victim to purchase a single gift card for himself.

the Scam wants you to wire transfer to be made as soon as possible.Eetu Pietarinen / Yle

Like online fraud in general, impostor is in a hurry. Account transfer is not, of course, can wait until the next day, but it has to be done urgently.

the Payment can be late?, or the request comes just before the weekend.

in a Hurry is a means of exerting pressure, with the scam tries to get his victims to bypass the safety precautions.

Number of delivery director of trickery is often associated with the more messages, the first of which asks to your account balance.Eetu Pietarinen / Yle

One of the repeated delivery manager scam scale start, the company's cash transport the employee responsible receives an email inquiry bank balance.

in This case money should be transferred urgently. Scam use the initial issue of screening to the recipients of the most easily out of suckers victims.

If the employee does not notice the hoax, as ceo of the performer of the criminal gives the second message in the data you the payment address. The amount you can reach hundreds of thousands of euros.

– Has come up against situations in which qualified and for a long time the company was the employee is noticed cheated only at the stage when the police is afterwards told, said the detective Marko Leponen , cid.

the Scam claims often present themselves at the meeting, so that the victim does not try to call him.Eetu Pietarinen / Yle

the most Typical is that the message I sent a fake delivery director is unavailable. Him does not like to be connected, but transfers have to take care of without question more.

This scam is trying to dodge the only questions that will reveal him or give the victim time to notice a scam.

Police figures show that it is not a little crime

the delivery director of the scams are part of a broader companies against fraud crime. Internationally the same series are bundled in the so-called Business Email Compromise fraud, such as e-mail data breach and the tasks of billing fraud.

the central bureau of police estimates that these scams have been exported to Finland (you move to another service) more than four million this year.

in September, the police hit the company top to all over the world. Long operation culminated nearly 300 suspected criminals arrested for, inter alia, in the united states, in Nigeria and in the Uk (you move to another service). In finland, no arrests made, the police don't have information about the Finnish uhreistakin of.

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