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Heide (dpa / lno) – With the so-called boss fraud, perpetrators have cheated a company in the Dithmarschen district by at least 10,000 euros. An employee received an email allegedly from her boss last Tuesday, asking for a transfer, the police said on Friday. The woman transferred a five-digit amount. When the employee asked her boss about the transfer the next day, the fraud was noticed. At this point in time, the bank was no longer able to return the money to the company.
According to the police, it is a so-called CEO fraud (boss fraud), in which the perpetrators pretend to be the boss. The scammers contact their victims by email or phone. In most cases, employees would be selected from the accounting department of companies, it said.
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Source: DPA
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