Hackers posing as business executives for fraud over $ 3 billion, FBI emergency alert-hackers, fraud-IT information
On June 15, according to Reuters, United States Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) on Tuesday unveiled a set of network crime, a group of hackers trying to pretend to executives by e-mail and complete the electronic transfers of more than $ 3 billion. FBI pointed out that such crimes now are becoming more popular, the Agency hopes to expose the data for enterprise and public warnings.
According to FBI sources, from October 2013 to May this year, the world learned 22143 Enterprise mail fraud cases involving amount up to $ 3.1 billion. Earlier this year, this figure was far higher than the FBI estimate of 2.3 billion dollars.
FBI agents miqieer·tangpusen (Mitchell Thompson) that any enterprise to feel themselves to be victims of similar cases, should be immediately reported to the FBI. Only in this way, and FBI have a chance to work with offshore staff, in order to avoid fraud ring asked banks to freeze accounts before completing the withdrawal.
"Reported to the FBI as soon as possible, so that they will have more chance to recover was cheated of money. "Thompson in the FBI told a news conference in New York.
Up to now, a total of 79 countries and regions of the World Bank on the transfer list. And each of the four United States victims, there would be a real money action.
As early as at the beginning of this year, Australia aviation supplier FACC said suffered a loss of 50 million euros because of mail fraud.
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6月15日消息，据路透社报道，美国联邦调查局（FBI）周二披露了一组网络犯罪行为，一批黑客试图冒充企业高管并通过电子邮件完成超过30亿美元的电子汇款。FBI指出此类犯罪如今正变得愈发普及，该机构希望公开的数据能让企业和公众得到警示。
据FBI透露，从2013年10月到今年5月，全球共获知22143起企业邮件诈骗案件，其中涉及汇款金额高达31亿美元。这一数字要远高于FBI今年初预估的23亿美元。
FBI特工米切尔·汤普森（Mitchell Thompson）表示，任何企业如果感觉到自己成为类似案件的受害人，都应该立即向FBI举报。也只有这样，FBI才有机会与外海工作人员配合，以避免在诈骗团伙完成提款前要求涉案银行冻结相关账号。
“向FBI报案越快越好，这样才有更多机会追回被骗钱财。”汤普森在FBI纽约新闻发布会上表示。
截至目前，全球共有79个国家和地区的银行出现在汇款名单中。而每四个美国受害者中，就会有一个实际采取汇款行动。
早在今年初，澳大利亚航空设备零件供应商FACC就表示因为邮件欺诈而承受了5000万欧元的损失。