The AHTCC provides a nationally coordinated approach to technology enabled crime. Its brief is to combat serious and complex high tech crimes, especially those beyond the capability of a single jurisdiction. Read more about the AHTCC's role.
The term 'phishing' refers to the use of spam e-mails purporting to be from a financial institution such as a bank or credit union, in this way criminals 'fish' for legitimate bank customer's logon information. Criminals send out millions of these fraudulent e-mails to random e-mail addresses in the hope of luring unsuspecting innocent persons into providing their personal banking details.
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Mule Recruitment is an attempt to get a person to receive stolen funds using his or her bank account, and then transfer those funds to criminals overseas. Learn more...