Scam alert: Hackers impersonate your solicitor and ask for funds to be transferred to their accounts

Brendan Burgess

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An interesting article in the Irish Independent.

Home buyers stand to lose thousands in new cyberattack



During the final stages of a property purchase or sale, they inform potential victims by email that certain bank account details have changed.


They then instruct that payments be moved to a different account, allowing the criminals secure control over deposits.


A solicitor's own email may be hacked or impersonated, so clients are directed to send money to accounts other than the solicitor's client account.


So if you are paying a deposit to a solicitor, you should probably send a test €1 first and then get telephone confirmation that it has come through.
 
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