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こちら Japan flag を選択して頂くと、言語設定が日本語に切り替わります。設定変更後は以下の機能が利用可能です。

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By selecting Japan flag, you have now set your language to Japanese. This has several benefits, including:

  • Providing quick access to our Japan page, which collates all our Japanese content in one place.

  • Ensures that content is presented to you in Japanese first, if we have an article, publication or webpage available in Japanese. Look out for the Japan flag indicators across the site.

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点击选择 China flag,可将网站语言设置为中文。这能帮助您:

  • 快速访问我们的中国区页面,该页面将有网站内容的中文汇总。

  • 在我们的文章、出版物或者网页有中文版本提供的情况下,确保首先向您展示的是中文版本的内容。您可关注站点上的 China flag 按键。

关闭 点击任意其他国旗,可切换您的语言偏好。

By selecting China flag, you have now set your language to Chinese. This has several benefits, including:

  • Providing quick access to our China page, which collates all our Chinese content in one place.

  • Ensures that content is presented to you in Chinese first, if we have an article, publication or webpage available in Chinese. Look out for the China flag indicators across the site.

Close If you’d like to change your language preferences again, simply click on one of the other flags.

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ICC Warns of Scammers Exploiting COVID-19 Pandemic

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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned of scammers exploiting the spread of the Coronavirus to carry out fraudulent activities and cyberthreats.

The April 2020 edition of its IMB Commercial Crime International (CCI) Report highlights a number of attempts by fraudsters to exploit of the current situation to their advantage.

Our eagerness for the latest information on COVID-19, coupled with wanting to help health authorities in setting up schemes to help track the spread of the virus can may make us all more vulnerable to dropping our guard and clicking on a link in a fraudster’s email or text message.

The UK’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) advise that most reports relate to online selling scams – in particular hand sanitiser and face masks which never arrive.

There has also been a rise in coronavirus-related phishing messages, sent from parties purporting to be health authorities, tax officials, news providers and those offering investment opportunities to take advantage of the pandemic.

The reports from INTERPOL of fraudsters cold-calling and posing as hospitals or clinics demanding funds in order to treat loved ones or relatives are even more shocking.

The International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) report instances of fraudulent invoices for medical testing services related to COVID-19.

Keep up your guard!

Remind your shore-side and shipboard teams that while most of us are pulling together to support each other, there are people out there seeking to profit from our fears and our desire to help each other.

You can find out more on protecting yourself from cyberthreats in our Cyber Security expertise area.

Thanks to the ICC for allowing us to reproduce extracts from their article “Covid-19: Fraud reports soar as scammers exploit pandemic” in their April 2020 edition of ‘Commercial Crime International (CCI) Report’.

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