Monday, June 29, 2015

Spearphishing gets personal as woman scammed out of £50k house deposit

From Sophos Naked Security:

Spearphishing gets personal as woman scammed out of £50k house deposit

A London woman has been scammed out of almost £50,000, thinking she was sending it to her solicitor as a down-payment on a house purchase, after crooks apparently gained accessed to her email account and monitored her online conversations.

58-year-old Vivian Gabb, a self-employed single mother, was in the process of buying a house when she received an email purporting to come from her solicitor, asking her to change the account information she used for making payments to the firm and requesting that she send the sum of £46,703.20 (about $73,000), which she was already expecting to have to pay, into the new account.

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