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. .
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
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.
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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