HEBA’s public awarness initiative on cyber financial fraud

As the Hellenic Bank Association mentioned in an informative material that was recently published with the typology of fraud in the “cyberspace” and the ways to prevent such incidents, has named some more cases of cyber financial crime.

Amongst them are the cases of CEO fraud (CEO Fraud), fraud through invoices and other documents (invoice Fraud), fraudulent phone calls (vishing), fraudulent SMS (smishing), fraudulent emails (phishing), fraudulent bank websites, spoofed bank websites, romance scam, personal data theft, investment fraud scams), online shopping scams, online technical support scams, electronic telephone fraud, identity theft, and SIM Swapping fraud.

The cyber scams awareness and public awareness campaign has been launched by Europol, in collaboration with the European Banking Federation (ETF) as part of the European Cyber Security Month.