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The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, [1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh ...
[5] [6] They made fake sales contract through their companies outside of Bangladesh. Then open letter of credit for phantom exports. [7] The group Chairperson Nawrin Hasib and Managing Director Khaza Suleiman Chowdhury were charged in 12 cases by the Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission. [8] The commission also sued 53 bank officials from the ...
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
The commission also issued a letter to the emigration police asking them not to allow the four suspended officials of the mine to leave the country until the investigation is completed. A case was filed in relation with coal scam against 19 officials including Habib Uddin Ahmed, former managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Some examples: They say they've noticed suspicious activity or log-in attempts on your account They claim there’s a problem with your account or your payment information
Jan. 18—ROCHESTER — A Rochester hotel employee cost his employer more than $330 after falling prey to a scam. The employee was working about 9 p.m. Sunday when he received a call on his ...
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...