Briefs: CBA and ANZ sued in email scam case
Property developer Bensons Property Group is suing the CBA and ANZ to recover nearly A$1 million it lost in an email scam, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. The company was targeted with emails purporting to be from a construction company it was working with, saying their bank account details had changed. Bensons transferred the payment into the CBA account provided by the scammers, and the money was then transferred into an ANZ account before being taken out of the country. Bensons is seeking a court declaration that the banks held the money in "constructive trust" and demanding they supply the identity of the offenders.