The National Police has long warned dangerous increase computer fraud Criminals attack both businesses and individuals Palma City Council reported that he was a victim of fraud. phishing system‘. hackers More than 300,000 euros stolen Cort’s public funds impersonating a company’s identity With fake bank accounts.
The Metropolitan Municipality reported the situation to the municipality. National PoliceHe will be responsible for resolving the case and assured in a statement that they appeared in preliminary proceedings and that there were “significant advances in the investigation” being carried out by the agents.
Apparently, last February, Cort’s Treasury department received an email from the Contracts Division, which apparently forwarded a communication from the company. Shamil, successful bidder for several town hall cleaning services. The message stated: the company was in the process of closing its bank accountand i added its data a new account to pay.
As determined by the protocol, the requested department, a signed and stamped bank proof of ownership to verify the identity of your authorized provider. As announced by the City Council, the alleged hackers managed to falsify these documents submitted to them. Stamp and electronic signature that “looks completely real”, Therefore, the Consulate paid two invoices to the specified account on March 8; one for 263,652.20 euros and the other for 39,498.27 euros. 303,150,47 Euros in total.
With that payment, Cort thought the debt was paid off—until Samyl’s company got real this time. demanded payment of bills. At that time, Consistory discovered the fraud, and the same day employees of the Municipal Treasury, Intervention and Legal Services went to the offices of the National Police to file a complaint. They also reported what had happened. the two banks involved and the cleaning company affected.
In any case, the Treasury Department confirmed that there were no similar scams in other areas of the Consistory, and yesterday from Cort the scam was not due to a computer error, but rather a computer error. “A falsified document in large volume invoices managed daily”.
In fact, the Undersecretariat of the Treasury, in order to take extreme security measures against such crimes, which are becoming increasingly widespread, Adrian Garcia, met with representatives of the bank where the so-called fraudsters operate. He also held a meeting with councilors and the Spokespersons Board to report the facts to all municipal groups.
On the other hand, Palma city council announced that it has been working intensively for months. Treasury department retrofit plan that it was “highly developed” and that as a result of the event, the Treasury region issued Instructions for securing the protocol contribution of bank ownership certificates.
In addition, Cort said in a statement that he recently Barcelona City Council exposed to a scam with a similar procedureSince he transferred the amount of 13 bills to the account of some scammer for 350,000 euros.