2013 FBI Wires 
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JUNE 15, 2016
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 total amount lost to wire-transfer fraud between October 2013 and February of this year.
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MAY 8, 2017
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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OCTOBER 10, 2018
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 Thieves attempted to steal $5.3
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FEBRUARY 9, 2020
5) to one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, stating that he assisted New York-based MyPayrollHR CEO and Founder Michael Mann defraud two companies, according to multiple reports last week. Steiner said he helped the 49-year-old Mann allegedly defraud two finance companies out of nearly $13 million between 2013 and 2019.
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JANUARY 18, 2019
“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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MAY 12, 2017
FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016. From October 2013 through December 2016, a new report from the FBI suggests cybercriminals used business email compromise (BEC) scams to try and steal some $5.3 told Reuters that the FBI report covered just 20 percent of the total and that the losses could be double.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Per Nathan Shields, special agent with the FBI , the details of the conspiracy and the hack(s) come from multiple sources, spanning activities such as analyzing compromised victim systems and executing approximately 100 search warrants across 1,000 email and social media accounts. Park is being charged by the U.S.
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