Homeowner thought money was being sent to company that was doing renovation work.
VANCOUVER — After the owner of a Shaughnessy mansion e-transferred a sizable amount of money — more than a half-million dollars — to pay for extensive renovations, he prudently followed up with an email two days later to confirm receipt.
The four emails were the first of several emails intercepted or fraudulently sent by a hacker or hackers in June. The fraud wouldn’t be noticed for another 10 days, buying the hackers time to cover up their crime and be long gone. The hackers then sent a second email that appeared to be from Malinowski advising the homeowner that payment had been received and to ignore Malinowski’s earlier email. The homeowner responded to that email and that reply was intercepted, too.
The next day, on June 21, Malinowski discovered GemLevy’s email system had been “breached and infiltrated” and he sent an email to the owner to warn him. “The purpose … of the fraudulent emails sent by the defendants on June 17, 20 and 21 was to delay or prevent the discovery of the fraudulent misdirection” of the owner’s payment on June 14 into the fraudulent bank account, it said.
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