Current Affairs Czech bank subject of biggest ever e-mail scam
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Czech Republic have been bombarded in recent weeks by fraudulent e-mails in what is the biggest attempted internet fraud scam in the country’s history. The emails purport to be from country’s biggest bank, Česká Spořitelna – and ask for client’s account and credit card details. The campaign has been so unrelenting that many Czechs have learned a new word, phishing the name given to this form of scam. I talked to Česká Spořitelna’s spokeswoman Klára Gajdušková and started by asking whether the bank has had any previous experience with this kind of Internet crime:
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