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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. As reported by Threatpost , earlier this month, researchers in London identified a cybersecurity gang that has evolved markedly in scale. The fraud evolved into romance scams a few years later, then BEC scams in 2015. “I

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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. While the continued strength of BEC scammers may not come as a surprise, the research finds that the scam no longer only reigns in targets with a request for wire transfer.

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Authentication Creates Opportunity To Solve FIs' $1 Trillion Fraud Problem

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Chaos and disarray, of course, have been the hallmarks of the pandemic, and even of the leap in moving from paper checks and in-person commerce and banking to digital conduits. So, it might start with a counterfeit check, but it comes from social engineering from social media,” she offered as an example.