Scammers fail to fool Saudi Aramco with fraud attempt

Published October 19th, 2015 - 07:16 GMT
The scammers attempted a fraudulent money transfer between Saudi Aramco and India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. (Al Bawaba/File)
The scammers attempted a fraudulent money transfer between Saudi Aramco and India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. (Al Bawaba/File)

Saudi Aramco says it foiled a fraud attempt involving scammers pretending to work for India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp.

A statement by Saudi Aramco said the fraud involved a fake money transfer. The attempt targeted a money transfer between Aramco Trading Company and the Indian firm.

The statement, carried on the Saudi Press Agency, said: “The aborted attempt did not financially affect any of the two companies or their commercial relations.”

It noted that the two companies continue their business work as normal and they have enhanced protection measures for their systems information technology.

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