PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

40 legitimate email accounts of company executives have been compromised in a phishing campaign targeting businesses , according to Gov Info Security reports. The scam involves sending a phishing email claiming to be a Microsoft Office 365 update. An individual has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering charges.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Business email compromise (BEC) scams are gaining traction, and bilking unwitting individuals and companies out of an increasing amount of money. In other FBI-related anecdotes around BEC fraud, the bureau noted that scams also came from fraudsters who pretended to be real estate brokers. billion in 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As for the scams themselves, those varied widely both in terms of tactics and targets. 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

B2B payments are far from immune to fraud, and in this week’s B2B Data Digest, the business email compromise (BEC) scam reigns. Indeed, only days later, Europol announced an arrest into one BEC scam involving the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE).

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Nanonets

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a cyber threat that exploits the vulnerabilities of email communication. In business operations, BEC is often used to manipulate individuals within an organization for financial fraud or unauthorized access to sensitive information. What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Business email compromise has come to high school sports. more than a half-million dollars of taxpayer money in Virginia’s Spotsylvania County has been taken in tandem with a BEC scam — and the money was supposed to be used to build a football field for a local high school. million daily from companies individual victims.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

But the two men got that wealth, allegedly, from a business email compromise (BEC) scheme, where they gained access to legitimate email accounts and then tricked the company’s employees into sending money to the scammer’s email account.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

and overseas for engaging in international business email compromise schemes aimed at intercepting and stealing wire transfers from individuals and businesses. Since the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) began tracking BEC and its variant, e-mail account compromise (EAC), there has been more than $3.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In Ireland, police are sounding the alarm on the threat of B2B payments fraud after multiple businesses lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to business email compromise (BEC) scams. Hassold provided a public comment on the vendor email compromise scam. Meanwhile, in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam continues to rear its ugly head at the enterprise, with the global pandemic creating even more avenues through which cyber attackers can steal company money. At the heart of BEC and other scams is impersonation. How To Retain Security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The theft, if successful, could have hurt both executives and workers, and could be used in the future for a wide range of scams targeting companies by posing as leaders and scamming people into sending money. The ZDNet tipster has also gone about notifying others whose account information is known to have leaked.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) fraud has been gaining ground and growing in terms of number of incidences, according to a recent report. As noted by the Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the number of reports of BEC rose to a monthly average of more than 1,100 in 2018, where the tally had been 500 in 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

This week's B2B Data Digest takes a look at the numbers behind the latest instances of fraud, including fraudulent invoices, corporate tax scams and more. $19 19 million in shipping scams hit Amazon , according to U.S. 250,000 in loan offerings are appearing in a new COVID-19 scam targeting small businesses , the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

companies via the Business Email Compromise scam, reports in The East African said last week. Through Operation reWired, we are sending a clear message to the criminals who orchestrate these Business Email Compromise schemes that ‘I will keep coming after you, no matter where you are.’”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Business enterprise compromise (BEC) scams are crossing borders, where fraudsters in Africa are targeting U.S. The scam involves communications from fraudsters impersonating company officials, suppliers or vendors, instructing unwitting victims to wire funds to accounts they have set up. companies and government agencies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

The 2020 Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Payments Fraud and Control Survey underwritten by JPMorgan found that business email compromise (BEC) was the most noted origin of tried or actual fraud incidents in 2019, according to an announcement. That figure marks the second-highest percentage in the past 10 years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The FBI has once again sounded the alarm on the proliferation of digital fraud like ransomware and the business email compromise (BEC) scam, releasing new stats on the financial damage such criminal activity has caused in the U.S. in recent years. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

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 scam, which used those devices and deployed email methods, netted more than $3 million in Australian currency. The scams netted an alleged $25 million from 2014 to 2016. “In

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

They poke and prod, looking for various weaknesses to be exploited on online platforms, in company emails (as in Business Email Compromise, or BEC), through text messages and even the old-fashioned phone call that induces a victim to hurry online and send some money. He had access to both the internet and to his phone.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC) scams continue to ravage company coffers. Just last week, IBM cybersecurity experts uncovered a widespread BEC attack targeting players in the coronavirus vaccine supply chain. But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Business email compromise (BEC) attempt scams are gaining traction, targeting billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains. As reported by businessinsights.com , the agency has found more than 32,000 documented cases of BEC attempts during that timeframe. Taken on a daily basis, the BEC scams have tried to siphon off $8.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Fraud Tracker looks at the latest cases and allegations of fraud, which show rising sophistication in fraudsters’ tactics: internal bad actors are no longer acting alone, BEC scams are no longer reliant on chance and financial institutions face a growing trend in loan fraud. A New Twist On the BEC Scam.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

This week’s look at the latest cases of B2B fraud finds a surge of business email compromise (BEC) attacks, as well as emerging trends in fraud related to government coronavirus relief efforts. 200 percent more BEC scams hit U.S. ” The U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

If the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam isn’t on the radar of every corporate finance executive, it certainly should be. The 2018 report, sponsored by JPMorgan , finds fraudsters are spinning their BEC webs even broader, targeting new channels of business transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

BEC, the acronym for business email compromise scams, is getting its share of attention. That comes in the wake of BEC scams that are growing as a threat to companies of all sizes and industries as they conduct B2B operations. firms have lost more than $5 billion to BEC scams.

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PYMNTS

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. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2019

Police in Singapore helped stop a scam that was targeting users of bitcoin machines at a local mall. This is just the latest crypto scam to hit the country. Between September and November of last year, $78,000 worth of cryptocurrencies held by investors living in Singapore were lost as the result of scams.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

As researchers at Agari reported, business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been going mobile. As noted in other BEC scams, often the criminal impersonates an executive with the company. It also opens the door to more cross-border scams, as it only costs a little bit of money to set up a temporary U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam. While the corporate victims of the scam weren’t named at the time, Fortune Magazine recently reported that they were none other than Facebook and Google. At the end of March , the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

In this week’s Data Digest, PYMNTS rounds up the latest cases and research into how corporates are being targeted with crimes like the business email compromise (BEC) scam, as well as how they’re fighting back. When it comes to fraud threats, no company — large or small — is immune.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

A phishing scam making the rounds and targeting businesses is using the Square name to fool its targets. The Advocate also noted that a way to avoid falling victim to the scam is to verify the URL. Using financial services companies’ names and logos to commit scams is a common tactic for cybercriminals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Thus, business email compromise fraud (BEC) is evolving too. As reported in darkreading.com, the gangs using BEC – new gangs and seasoned gangs – have recently been targeting human resource and finance professionals to grab direct deposit payroll information to siphon off funds.

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PYMNTS

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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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Employees certainly need more training to be able to detect a business email compromise (BEC) when they see one. A fifth of survey respondents who had been hit by some type of cyberattack said it was the result of a BEC, making this cybercrime the number one tactic fraudsters use. billion in total losses since 2013.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2,100 corporates were targeted in a widespread business email compromise (BEC) scam recently uncovered by cybersecurity company Agari , the firm revealed last week. 75,000 is the average loss of a BEC scam , new data from the FBI has revealed. billion in total cybercrime-related losses for the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The accused allegedly tapped a network of 49 shell firms for the business to business (B2B) scam that defrauded the government. When it comes to B2B payment scams , it’s not only outsiders but entities’ own internal personnel that is often the cause of fraudulent activity.

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