Ref : HAFFA News 32 (2009-2010)
Date :
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News ~
Fraudulence Case
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Need your Urgent Attention: Fraudster used the name
of HAFFA to get private information
Recently
our Members have reported to HAFFA that a fraudster pretends to be a staff from
the HAFFA secretariat, uses telephone correspondence to troll for and reel in
potential victims from HAFFA members, whose companies’ names may be drawn from
a variety of sources including professional directories, newspapers and trade
websites.
See
below for details of action of the fraudster:
1. A fraudster pretends to be a
staff of the HAFFA secretariat and is therefore calling different HAFFA member
companies to request for personal email address of senior executives (e.g.
Managing Director) of the companies.
2. All affected members then ask
for the reason but the fraudster does not provide the answer and starts to use
very rude tactics to urge for the information. All affected members decline to
provide such information and then call HAFFA to report about the case.
3. So far, one member company has
written down the contact details of the fraudster as below for your
information:
Name: MISS LAU
Telephone: 5166-3921
Members
please note:
With
an aim to prevent crime, HAFFA has reported this to the Police. And in this
connection, we would like to draw your kind attention that all HAFFA
staff will NEVER contact your office and ask you to disclose private
information of your company or senior executive without sending you a formal
letter/circular explaining the reason for your consideration.
If
you receive a request purportedly from HAFFA and in doubt, please remember to
do the followings:
(1) Do not disclose any information via
telephone before verifying the authenticity of the calling party.
(2) If you receive a
telephone call purportedly from HAFFA, then ask to call him/her back. Before doing so, verify that the given
telephone number is genuine by mark down the caller’s number (usually on the
telephone screen) and/or request the caller to provide both his/her full name
and telephone number. Check with HAFFA by calling tel:
2796-3121 immediately.
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