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‘Scattered Canary’ BEC Scams Aim At US Firms

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Business enterprise compromise (BEC) scams are crossing borders, where fraudsters in Africa are targeting U.S. The group’s genesis traces to West Africa in 2008, where Craigslist was used as a conduit to send counterfeit checks. companies and government agencies.

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Business Email Scams Spin Even Wider Webs

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If the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam isn’t on the radar of every corporate finance executive, it certainly should be. Of respondents who said they were targeted by payments fraud last year, a combined 41 percent said the fraud involved ACH transactions, both debit and credit.

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