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‘Scattered Canary’ BEC Scams Aim At US Firms

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The group’s genesis traces to West Africa in 2008, where Craigslist was used as a conduit to send counterfeit checks. The FBI reported that BEC scam losses roughly doubled in 2018, as measured year over year, to $1.2 companies and government agencies.