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Central Bank fall victim for phishing attack

  • 05-10-2015 8:43am
    #1
    Treepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭


    I read a tweet over the weekend that the Central Bank had fallen victim to a phishing scam and had lost over €32,000. The attackers had targeted €1.6m but the scam was uncovered before they could withdraw it all.

    Anybody know any more on this? Information about the details seems fairly scant.


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  • #2
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Some silly billy probably caught in the latest wave of vishing (if this true they should be sacked and sued for the money + interest - no business working there). Tis crazy the amount of money people are losing.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34425717

    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/garda-warning-over-vishing-scam-as-victim-transfers-22000-to-bogus-caller-31556948.html


  • #3
    Impetus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34425717

    It is high time that Britain and Ireland modernised its property law and got rid of conveyancing and the need to give law firms large sums of money. In most civil law countries the buyer and seller just go to the notary at an appointed time and sign the transfer documents in front of the notary. The notary has access to the property register, and information on all charges, planning permission cautions, lis pendens, and other matters relating to the real estate in question.

    The buyer gives a cheque to the seller for the full consideration there and then. Twenty years + imprisonment if the cheque was not paid on first presentation. (most civil law countries have a sliding scale of mandatory imprisonment based on the amount involved in unpaid cheque matters).


  • #4
    Treepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭Treepole


    Intro to the article here, the rest is behind a paywall:

    A NIGERIAN gang is believed to have stolen €32,000 from the Central Bank of Ireland after compromising its payment systems by sending phishing emails.

    The disclosure will be highly embarrassing for the financial authority, which regularly issues warnings about such scams.

    The gang managed to have scheduled payments being made to Danske Bank transferred to a branch of the Ulster Bank in Galway last December. The hackers hoped to steal €1.6m, but were unable to withdraw and transfer all the money before the alarm was raised.

    The stolen money was withdrawn in a succession of ATM transactions by a woman, who was identified by detectives from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation (GBFI) from the photograph attached to a passport offered as identification when opening the bank account used to receive the money.


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