{"id":136,"date":"2016-09-14T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2016-11-04T15:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T04:38:53","slug":"alert-new-email-scam-ceo-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/alert-new-email-scam-ceo-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT! New email scam &#8220;CEO Fraud&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malware-hacker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malware-hacker-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"email-scam-fraud\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malware-hacker-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malware-hacker.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Host101&#8217;s partner site, <a title=\"Hosting-Australia.com\" href=\"http:\/\/Hosting-Australia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hosting-Australia.com<\/a> has become aware of new email scam that has been circulating Australian companies. It has been in circulation around the world for a few years but has recently risen its head in Australian circles.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the CEO Fraud or Bogus Boss scam, the fraudsters will either send you an email or make a phone call posing as your manager or perhaps your managers accountant and attempt to get you to transfer large amounts of money to external accounts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It may sound simple to avoid, but its very well planned, targeted and very, VERY dangerous. It has cost companies around the globe billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Its effectiveness comes from the clever social engineering used by the scammers. They will know your CEO&#8217;s name, know his movements and in particular target when on holiday and they will also know information about you&#8230;all this is used to make the approach sound more personal and believable. Its believed the scammers use a combination of social media feeds and website information to perform the social engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Its a scary new trend by these scammers, that shows along with the evolution and improvement of online security and advanced mail scanning services such as <a title=\"SPAMProtect - Anti spam and malware scanner\" href=\"http:\/\/hosting-australia.com\/security\/spam-protection\" target=\"_blank\">SPAMProtect<\/a>, they are still able to extract money from people and businesses around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a title=\"Hosting-Australia.com Web Hosting Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hosting-australia.com\/support-centre\/news-articles\/item\/88-scam-ceo-fraud-dont-get-caught-out\" target=\"_blank\">Hosting-Australia.com Web Hosting Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host101&#8217;s partner site, Hosting-Australia.com has become aware of new email scam that has been circulating Australian companies. It has been in circulation around the world for a few years but has recently risen its head in Australian circles. Known as the CEO Fraud or Bogus Boss scam, the fraudsters will either send you an email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,26],"tags":[24,22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.host101.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}