Hackers are exploiting security flaws in recruitment websites to dupe job-hunters into committing the decidedly low-tech crime of cheque fraud. In the elaborate new scam, criminals seize the personal details of candidates from recruitment websites and contact them with an offer seemingly too good to be true. Victims are offered the chance to become part-time ‘financial officers’, working from home to perform the simple task of cashing business cheques on behalf of overseas firms in exchange for a cash commission. To earn the commission, the cheque has to be redeemed within 24 hours and the money - less commission - wired to the overseas firm. The proposition sounds too good to be true - and it is. In reality, the firms are a front for a Russian cybergang and the cheques expertly-crafted forgeries. The cheques are of low-to-medium value in order to evade each bank’s fraud detection systems and the scam has to be executed within 24 hours to have any hope of succeeding.

**Hidden Content: To see this hidden content your post count must be 1 or greater.**