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AscendantFX Makes The Case For Wire Transfer

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Rarely does the wire transfer come into play as an exciting, innovative payment rail ready to disrupt cross-border B2B payments. The wire transfer, made popular by Western Union more than 150 years ago, may not seem to be the most innovative rail. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: FBI Wire Fraud Warning

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The FBI is warning about the increasing risk of wire transfer fraud. As part of its newly launched public awareness campaign on wire transfer fraud, the FBI provided tips to help companies detect and fight the threats. Billion | The amount hackers have attempted to steal from businesses using wire fraud between October 2013-May 2016.

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FBI Says There Was An Uptick In Cyber Wire Fraud In 2016

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Cyber wire fraud via email had increased during the last seven months of last year, according to a new warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a warning to businesses covered by Reuters , the FBI said bad guys used email and pretended to be from real businesses to try and steal $5.3 Reuters also noted that the U.S.

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Google And Facebook Scammed Out Of $100M

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Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam. The DoJ alleges that the man, Evaldas Rimašauskas, used a business email compromise (BEC) scam to trick Facebook and Google into paying fake invoices, impersonating manufacturer Quanta Computer.

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US Judge Sentences Man For $25M Supplier Invoice Scam

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judge has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years and five months in prison for his role in a business email compromise scam. Reports said Adindu was arrested in 2016 and allegedly carried out business email compromise scams between 2014 and 2016. The sentence follows charges by the U.S.

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Study Sees BEC Scams Gaining Ground

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Unlike traditional [business email compromise (BEC)] attacks, which are starting to raise red flags with financial institutions, payroll diversion attacks eliminate the interaction with banks because it is a direct deposit instead of a wire transfer,” said Crane Hassold, senior director of threat research at the firm.

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Surprise: The C-Suite Falls For Invoice Scams The Most

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Employees certainly need more training to be able to detect a business email compromise (BEC) when they see one. Here’s the problem: The professional who falls victim to eInvoice scams like the business email compromise is, more often than not, a C-Suite executive. billion in total losses since 2013.

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