How this scammer used phishing emails to steal over $100 million from Google and Facebook via CNBCMakeIt
Scammers stole over $100 million from Facebook and Google in a creative way: They emailed the tech giants and asked for it.
In the scam, Rimasauskas and his co-conspirators created fairly convincing forgery emails using fake email accounts, which looked like they were sent by employees of the actual Quanta in Taiwan. They sent phishing emails with fake invoices to employees at Facebook and Google who"regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions" with Quanta, and those employees responded by paying out more than $100 million to the fake company's bank accounts, prosecutors said.
While the charges do not specifically name the companies involved in the scheme, Quanta has reportedly confirmed that it was the company Rimasauskas impersonated, while Facebook and Google were named in a Lithuanian court order in 2017, according to Reuters. The government's 2016 indictment refers to multiple unidentified co-conspirators who helped pull off the massive fraud, but no other charges have been filed.
In an email to CNBC Make It, Paul D. Petrus Jr., an attorney for Rimasauskas, said his client's actions"did not rise to the level" of what is described in the prosecutors' press release. Petrus said he intends"to ask for a punishment at sentencing that fits the crime he committed, which calls for leniency."
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