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JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. Let’s look at what business email compromise attacks are and explore some of the many ways you can combat them. What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack? Reported losses in 2020 exceeded $4.2

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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. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Senior citizens are the demographic group most vulnerable to identity fraud, as they are often not as digitally savvy as their younger counterparts nor as adept in online security best practices. There were 223,163 cases of identity theft that year across all generations, with 42 percent of them consisting of bank and credit card fraud.

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MAY 1, 2017

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam. The DoJ alleges that the man, Evaldas Rimašauskas, used a business email compromise (BEC) scam to trick Facebook and Google into paying fake invoices, impersonating manufacturer Quanta Computer.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Identity theft is an unfortunately reality for more consumers as data breaches continue to rock the market. Research from Auriemma Consulting Group estimates that identity theft has cost banks at least $6 billion, and cost consumers $58.9 But individual consumers aren’t the only victims of identity theft.

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JUNE 12, 2019

In an interview with Doug Cranston, vice president of product management at Bottomline, the executive noted that in the age of speed, fraudsters are able to more easily exploit firms’ vulnerabilities, compromise their accounts payable process and get away with ill-gotten gains, often to vanish without a trace. Fraudsters are getting smarter.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Authorized fraud also encompasses business email compromise (BEC) scams, too, said Tharle. Those customers have been seeing an uptick in BEC fraud, identity theft and synthetic ID schemes, and in some cases the bad actors have been trying to siphon off funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

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