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JAL - Email Scam, HK Bank Involved

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    JAL - Email Scam, HK Bank Involved

    The name of the HK bank has unfortunately been withheld in this report. Pity...

    An employee confirmed that JAL had received email with a bill specifying a new account with a Hong Kong bank for the leasing fees to be paid into. The airline had transferred 360 million yen to the account.

    A closer look revealed the critical one-character difference between the sender's email address and the financial institution's. By the time the scam was uncovered, the money had all been withdrawn from the receiving account.
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    Quite a common form of scam in the business world, apparently. I wonder why they didn't follow up with a phone call or even an email, given the sums involved... someone will be fired


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    Quote Originally Posted by orel100x:
    Quite a common form of scam in the business world, apparently. I wonder why they didn't follow up with a phone call or even an email, given the sums involved... someone will be fired
    Indeed - so many of our vendors / suppliers insist on getting documents or at a very minimum a phone call, which verify accounts. Almost trivial to create whitelists of vendor emails / simple protocols to follow for banking change controls.

    Someone who can authorise a multi-million dollar transfer to a new account has to take responsibility and do the modern day equivalent of sepppuku.

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    Would be nice to know which HK bank was involved. We do randomly get people who get refused bank accounts here in HK and would like to have a bank or two handy - to send them to...

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    Wouldn't JAL contact HK authorities who would therefore have the HK bank account details and obtain the person's name on the account.

    Or these people likely using fake documents to open bank accounts.

    The police could then use CCTV to potentially find the person involved. I'm guessing CCTV beyond a month or so isn't saved.


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    Yes but for billing by third party suppliers there wouldn't be an internal messaging system set up.