Hack Day: Caught up in the phishing net

Cyber thief

Our hacker Swifty reveals how a simple phishing scam earned him £30,000 in just one month.

Have you started getting complaints from suppliers about not being paid? You agreed them, authorised them and thought they had been paid?

Well, thank you.

You successfully paid me over £30,000 this month, rather than your supposedly valuable suppliers.

I know the garages, repair shops, building contractors, hospitals you use so it was easy to dummy up a barrage of authentic looking emails with a few new accounts details, a new website or two to use to make payments through and hey presto the

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