A Hong Kong-based international corporation has been conned into transferring US$6.6mil into a Singapore bank account in an email scam.hacked into the email account of the company’s CFO, impersonated her, and instructed its financial controller to make the money transfers.“Between Oct 28 and Nov 5, the financial controller received four emails, purportedly sent out by the CFO, ordering him to settle the consultation fees and transfer US$6.65mil to a bank account in Singapore,” the source said.
Police have declined to name the company involved, which has offices in Dorset House, in Taikoo Place, in Quarry Bay. The centre, set up in 2017 to pool police resources for tackling online scams, halted 1,174 payments worth more than HK$4.45bil to international fraudsters between July 2017 and December 2019. About two-thirds of that amount was intercepted in 2019.