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Scammers target home buyer deposits through lawyers, real estate agents
Home buyers are being targeted by a new scam which tricks them into paying their deposit money to fraudsters instead of a legitimate trust account.
Banking Ombudsman Nicola Sladden says real estate agents and lawyers are being targeted in a sophisticated "invoice scam" in which people hack into the email of those companies and then send out legitimate-looking invoices.
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/personal-...ectid=12095492
Scammers target home buyer deposits through lawyers, real estate agents
Home buyers are being targeted by a new scam which tricks them into paying their deposit money to fraudsters instead of a legitimate trust account.
Banking Ombudsman Nicola Sladden says real estate agents and lawyers are being targeted in a sophisticated "invoice scam" in which people hack into the email of those companies and then send out legitimate-looking invoices.
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/personal-...ectid=12095492
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