Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 1404/2018 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 20 April 2018.
1. The plaintiff is an Australian corporation. According to the plaintiff’s case, it fell victim to an email fraud, in which persons unknown posed the director of the plaintiff and instructed the plaintiff’s finance manager by email to make a payment to an account maintained by the defendant in Hang Seng Bank Limited account numbered 395450075883. Believing the instructions to be genuine, the plaintiff paid AUD109,821.61 to the defendant’s Account on 16 March 2018. It was later discovered tha