AMMAN — A Jordanian export and import company fell
victim to a $200,000 fraud by a “foreign hacker”, Al-Ghad News reported on
Tuesday.
The company filed a complaint with the
Criminal Investigation Unit indicating that it had agreed with a foreign company to
purchase various devices and equipment worth $200,000.
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In the complaint the company said that communication took
place between the two companies via electronic correspondence, and when the
Jordanian company was asked to deposit the funds it transferred the money to
the account number that was provided. But not before it found that a hacker had
succeeded in penetrating the Jordanian company’s email, impersonated the
foreign company and provided a bank account number that was different from the
originally provided, claiming that the company’s official account had technical
problems,” according to Al-Ghad.
The Director of the Criminal Investigation Unit, Maj. Mahmoud Al-Maghaira, said that “the investigation is underway in preparation
for communicating with the country in which the hacker resides for the purpose of
prosecuting them and recovering the amount.”
But Maghaira added that “it is difficult to determine the
identity of those behind crimes of electronic financial fraud if the crime is
committed outside the borders of the Kingdom.” He added that “the role of the
cybercrime unit is to determine the country in which the hacker resides, and
then make official contacts with that country for the purposes of identifying
and prosecuting them.”
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