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Even Steel Bars Can’t Keep Internet Scams In Check

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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. Internet scammers, by nature, are a resourceful lot.

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 Justice Department Indicts 80 in Massive Online Fraud Scheme

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The individuals are charged with using business e-mail compromise (BEC) scams to dupe victims. He said that in other cases, known as romance scams, “victims think they are developing a dating relationship, when in fact they are just being tricked into sending money to the fraudsters.”.

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The Coronavirus And The Fizzle Of Barren Store Shelves

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The Cost of Love: Broken hearts club: Consumers report losing more than $200 million to romance scams last year, as estimated by the FTC. B2B Targeted: The FBI reports that Business email compromise (BEC) scams are on the rise. That’s up 40 percent over 2018.

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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 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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U.S. Card Skimming Fraud Grows 700+% in First Half of 2022

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At FICO World 2022, I hosted a session where we talked about global fraud trends like authorized push payment scams and romance scams. And card skimming is big business; the FBI estimates that “skimming costs financial institutions and consumers more than $1 billion each year.”. But here in the U.S.,