CEO fraud: Difference between revisions
From ACT Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>Doug Williamson (Create the page. Source: The Treasurer, June 2016, p30.) |
imported>Doug Williamson (Link with Whaling page.) |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
* [[Hacktivist]] | * [[Hacktivist]] | ||
* [[Internet]] | * [[Internet]] | ||
* [[Whaling]] | |||
Revision as of 07:13, 9 April 2017
Cybercrime.
A fraud in which the fraudster sends an email to an employee of a company, purporting to come from the account of the CEO or CFO of the company.
The email instructs the employee, on some pretext, to make an urgent payment to an overseas bank account.
