Warning / fraud case /manipulation with the mail and bank account
30 de septiembre de 2022
Dealer information
We herewith would like to inform you that we have recently faced a fraud case, in which one of our customers has transferred a large amount of money to a third-party account.
In fact, the emails were fished and redirected on the way between us and a customer with changing our email address almost imperceptibly or slightly: name@spieth-gymnastics.com became name@speith-gymnastics.com. The email and the attached pdf documents were manipulated in a way that the banking details and the IBAN number were changed and the customer received a pdf document with the wrong payment details. We noticed that communication between the customer and us was manipulated over several weeks and processed very professionally!
To avoid such problems we please you to:
- Pay particular attention to the email addresses (check that the email addresses are the usual ones)
- When you receive a new IBAN number for a transfer, initiate a rigorous verification protocol beyond a simple email exchange (counter-call procedure with your usual contacts)
Since a couple of years, SPIETH did not change his bank account, the correct account is:
BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV Niederlassung Deutschland, Europa-Allee 12, 60327 Frankfurt
SWIFT-Code: BNPADEFFXXX
IBAN No.: DE65 3701 0600 2220 712018
