Crooks buying resellers to defraud distributors

Doug Woodburn
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New scam doing the rounds in the channel sees criminals acquiring resellers and using them as fronts to commit high-value frauds

UK and European IT distributors are being targeted by a new scam whereby crooks acquire legitimate resellers and use them as a front to carry out high-value frauds. The ruse - flagged up by IT d...

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