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JULY 20, 2016

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been targeting the Business Email Compromise for years, warning companies to be aware of fake supplier emails and invoices requesting firms to wire funds. According to reports, funds wired are rarely recovered. billion from unsuspecting companies.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Scammers deploying the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam have proven no company, regardless of size and industry, is immune to this crime. Reports in The Art Newspaper say BEC scammers seem to have a new favorite target this time: art galleries.

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JUNE 14, 2018

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), identity theft is the seventh largest crime in the U.S., Funded with a grant from the Identity Theft Resource Center and the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime, the “ Business Identity Theft in the U.S. million, in 2016 alone. What to Do About It.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Fraudsters can automate the process by which they infiltrate email accounts and learn to speak like a CEO or CFO to initiate a fraudulent wire transfer, a scam known as the business email compromise (BEC). More than a fifth of companies said they cannot detect ACH or wire fraud before it leaves their companies.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of a successful attack aren’t isolated to its target. Unfortunately, Sadler noted, it often doesn’t matter whether a fraudster is requesting a wire transfer or wire card payment. “It

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JUNE 20, 2016

Cybercrime involving email scams are on the rise, as businesses and their AP officials receive these fraudulent emails that seemingly request legitimate money transfers by posing as a corporate executive or a supplier requesting payment. The business email compromise has created more than 22,000 cases in the U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2017

According to Carlsson, perpetrators of this crime are becoming so sophisticated at the tactic that it’s next to impossible for someone in the accounts payable department to catch that an email they receive may not actually be from the company’s CEO, for instance. Thus, checks stay in the enterprise — and check fraud grows.

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