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Tradies frustrated by banks as business email scam costs them $51,000 – ABC News
There’s no way Jane Fleming could have known an emailed invoice was fake. It came from the right email address and all the business’s details were correct — except…
As Jane Fleming lit the candles on her son’s birthday cake, she was preoccupied with a substantial sum of missing money $51,000 to be precise.
Key points:
- Scammers intercepted an email and changed the banking details on the attached invoice
- Police believe the account used by the scammers was likely set up using a false name
- Business email compromise scams cost Australians millions of dollars a year
“It was a horrible day. I just felt sick all day, just wondering where the 50 grand was,” she said.
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