Cyber Safety Alert

The Cyber Crime Unit is warning members of the public relying on email to conduct business particularly when ordering goods from overseas of a scam known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) A recent case saw a local company lose more than $500,000 after transferring money to an account and later confirmed it did not belong to the company that they had made arrangements with.

Fijians are advised that the trend noted is that after several genuine emails with the real company, the hacker would have registered a domain similar to an official one and hope that a targeted user will not notice the difference.

We urge everyone to thoroughly check emall addresses before making transfer for payments.