The Payments Association
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Romance scams, though smaller in number, are notable for their emotional and psychological toll on victims. In these scams, fraudsters develop a relationship with their target, often over a prolonged period, before fabricating personal crises to solicit financial help. Losses from romance scams amounted to £14.5
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. Internet scammers, by nature, are a resourceful lot.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The fraud firm uses “physical checks to cash out money pilfered through business email compromise (BEC) attacks,” and it is “spread around multiple countries in Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya,” a press release said. . The threat actor set its sights on more 3,000 employees from 2,100 companies between April and August of 2019. .
FICO
AUGUST 16, 2022
At FICO World 2022, I hosted a session where we talked about global fraud trends like authorized push payment scams and romance scams. One of the most insidious aspects of skimming fraud is that a transaction at a compromised location usually goes through without a hitch. Senior Director, Product Management.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 26, 2019
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.”.
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.
FICO
APRIL 29, 2022
Increasingly, the scams involve cryptocurrencies; The New York Times also recently investigating crypto romance scams in which victims are lured into paying criminals with fraudulent, and irrevocable, transfers into digital wallets. ACH volumes in the United States increased 8.7%
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