Last Week, I finalized a deal with a regular buyer after several correspendences. After signed the Proforma invoice. I waited the Deposit as usual.
The second Day, the buyer called me and said the bank informations I provided on the P/I was different as previous . So he need confirm with me again. as the new Bank informations was for a personal account . I awared that We may suffered a swindler, which amended our bank informations.
I asked the buyer to send the P/I which he held. and found that the swindler changed our bank informations to his personal account. How canning the cheater is!
fortunately, My buyer is advisable and careful. he detected the suspected point and avoid a big trouble we may suffer. Surely I changed my password immediately.
For this fraud , We call it "Phishing". The swindler send you e-mails with attractive messges, like: "We need your quotation""Please find our required product in the attached file" " attached is the T/T copy of order xxx" etc. In the e-mail they always link a website and need you login with you mail account and password to check the details. they will get your password when you login in. then steal you business secret.
I'm lucky this time. But not everyone is lucky everytime. So we must be very careful when click any linked website in the e-mail.
