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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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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.