Firm’s financial controller conned into transferring funds into Singapore bank account after crooks took control of CFO’s email. Police working with overseas counterparts to retrieve money. — SCMP
A Hong Kong-based international corporation has been conned into transferring US$6.6mil (HK$51mil or RM27.13mil) into a Singapore bank account in an email scam.
A police source said they believed international swindlers hacked into the email account of the company’s CFO, impersonated her, and instructed its financial controller to make the money transfers.
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