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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

companies via the Business Email Compromise scam, reports in The East African said last week. When Fairfax County discovered it was being defrauded, the FBI launched Operation reWired to capture the online fraudsters. The FBI revealed earlier this month that the operation led to arrests and the seizure of millions of dollars.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Business email compromise (BEC) scams are gaining traction, and bilking unwitting individuals and companies out of an increasing amount of money. Recently announced statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) bear out this trend. million cyber scam that is now being investigated by the FBI. billion in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As for the areas where scammers managed the biggest hits, business email compromise (BEC), confidence/romance fraud and spoofing were the top three types of crime in terms of monetary losses. There were almost 24,000 complaints in 2019 and, according to the FBI, each successful attack costs roughly $75,000.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But that message is apparently lost on criminals, who, according to a new report, have stolen some $26 billion over the last three years in a scam generally known as “ business email compromise.”. This is not the first time the FBI has sounded a warning about business email compromise. Fraud Trends.

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JULY 20, 2018

Federal Bureau of Investigation released a public service announcement this week warning that business email compromise (BEC) scams are on the rise. The total value of funds redirected as a result of a BEC scam has now topped $12 billion, the FBI said, updating previous warnings of the scam and including data up to May 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In Australia, news came that police have charged a quartet of alleged fraudsters with running a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The real estate sector is especially at risk, the FBI noted — from 2015 to 2017, the number of real estate transaction incidents increased by more than 1,110 percent.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Business Email Compromise scams continue to grow and steal more corporate money than ever before. Phishing emails — 93 percent of which include ransomware, according to ITProPortal — should by no means be ignored. This trend was first identified by ProofPoint in Q3 2017, and has since grown.

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