Bud the Baker Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Football club Hamilton Academical has lost what it described as a "substantial sum" due to fraud. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-41615050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlucifer Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 29 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said: Football club Hamilton Academical has lost what it described as a "substantial sum" due to fraud. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-41615050 I'm sure I heard it was three quarters of their gate receipts. The culprits were last seen splashing out on a Big Mac with fries. Only one between them mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 47 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said: Football club Hamilton Academical has lost what it described as a "substantial sum" due to fraud. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-41615050 That Nigerian Prince has emailed me before along with a General asking me to help them out with a financial matter , luckily I decided my bank details are personal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhill Road Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Over £750,000 [emoji33] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky1 Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Who is stupid enough to click on any link that is contained in these types of emails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) 7 minutes ago, chalky1 said: Who is stupid enough to click on any link that is contained in these types of emails? http://www.scam-emails Go on, dare you Edited October 13, 2017 by Callum Gilhooley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Could this be an extra promotion place up for grabs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, HSS said: Could this be an extra promotion place up for grabs? vishful thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmac Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Dave King will stop at nothing to get money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabuddies Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 See Hearts were scammed earlier this year. See the updated BBC link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Les Gray being chairman of Hamilton and a director of a finance company get's duped financially ? not a good advert for his finance company is it. His finance company are shareholders of the accies and our own director Alan Wardrop is also a director of that finance company, hope we haven't invested in the scheme - whatever it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10ent Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 Curse those magic beans!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 So how does all this fit in with the rumours of dirty money at Hamilton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, TPAFKATS said: So how does all this fit in with the rumours of dirty money at Hamilton? followed by a bit of and finishing up with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmac Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 It would be good if the club (and SMISA) would confirm that they've robust procedures in place which would limit their exposure to this type of attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmac Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 Alas, there are gullible twats in every organisation. Its making sure that the gullible twats are not making decision making positions that could finish the club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmac Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 Bang on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guinness Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 Probably bailed out by 300k received due to Celtic reaching group stages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42963379 It seems that the Accies employee is at fault. Edited February 6, 2018 by shull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Ouch! Quote The club said the first two payments - of £40,000 and £70,000 - were initially suspended by RBS's cyber security team. But the club employee was convinced by the scammers to ignore the warnings and continue the transactions. The following day £655,000 went out in 20 transactions. RBS confirmed it has yet to receive a formal response from the club's lawyers. A spokeswoman said: "The bank is confident that there has been no breakdown in our security procedures in regards to this scam and that no unauthorised persons were able to gain access to any of the club's banking facilities. "All payments were keyed and approved by the authorised user of the club's account. "The bank contacted HAFC to question the transactions on two separate occasions and the customer instructed the bank to continue with the payments. "RBS is working with Hamilton Academical Football Club and supporting Police Scotland to identify the perpetrators of this scam. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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