PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Rarely does the wire transfer come into play as an exciting, innovative payment rail ready to disrupt cross-border B2B payments. The wire transfer, made popular by Western Union more than 150 years ago, may not seem to be the most innovative rail. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3 Thieves attempted to steal $5.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

If the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam isn’t on the radar of every corporate finance executive, it certainly should be. While the continued strength of BEC scammers may not come as a surprise, the research finds that the scam no longer only reigns in targets with a request for wire transfer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Agari said the payroll diversion scams are on the rise, and are gaining traction as a result of social engineering. Agari told the site that the payroll diversion scam has gained favor among scam artists, allowing fraudsters to have better control over the scam itself, as there is no need for outside vendors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As noted earlier in the year, security research firm Agari, efforts are “ramping up” wherein criminals look to “divert payrolls” in various scams, especially tied to senior executives. Agari said the payroll diversion scams are on the rise and are gaining traction as a result of social engineering.

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the pandemic accelerating a surge in eCommerce volumes, online fraud threats are at their peak, and everything from chargeback fraud to online product scams are dampening the holiday spirit. According to cybersecurity experts, email scams rise during the holidays, with business email compromise (BEC) an especially concerning scam.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

This week, however, a rundown of the latest B2B payment scams finds that it’s not only external bad actors, but entities’ own internal personnel that is often the cause of fraudulent activity. The scam reportedly lasted about five years, and the former bookkeeper has now been charged with felony theft.

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The Paypers

JUNE 15, 2016

(The Paypers) FBI has warned that hackers sought to steal more than USD 3 billion from businesses in a scam in which criminals impersonate company executives in emails ordering large wire transfers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Stacy Arruda, a former special agent with the FBI and now executive director of the state of Florida ISAO on cybersecurity, said that part of the problem is that when it comes to protecting credit unions — and really any financial institution — danger lurks in what they don’t know. What to Do. But, as they say, prevention begins at home.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many firms still process cross-border transactions through wire transfers. A large portion of cross-border B2B transactions are sent via wire transfers: 69 percent of businesses tapped this method for cross-border payments in 2019. Fraud scams targeting these wire transfers have long been an issue, with U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

22) the Justice Department unsealed an indictment —spanning 252 counts — against 80 defendants for alleged online scams that bilked firms and individuals of tens of millions of dollars. The individuals are charged with using business e-mail compromise (BEC) scams to dupe victims. Late this past week, on Thursday (Aug. Individual Case.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of a successful attack aren’t isolated to its target. The BEC scam can manifest in many forms. It is so easy for attackers to pull off these kinds of scams,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

customers, and reportedly will process wire transfers, deposits and withdrawals from the Automated Clearing House Network. Last month, the FBI warned that crypto-related scams are on the rise. The FBI also noted that “many traditional financial crimes and money laundering schemes are now orchestrated via cryptocurrencies.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

the FBI recently issued a warning for holiday shoppers of a new scam called eSkimming , in which cyber criminals hack into legitimate online retailer websites to steal shoppers’ credit and debit card details. In the U.S., More on that below.).

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

. …………… Here are other top cybersecurity stories that made headlines this past week: One Million Gmail Users Affected By Google Docs Phishing Scam. percent of total users) were affected by an email phishing scam. FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016. billion across organizations.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The money mule moves stolen funds to a participant in the scam via an instant funds transfer or wire transfer, and the money is often unrecoverable and untraceable. . During the FICO Virtual Event this past May, we predicated that money muling would be one of the top scams being perpetrated during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

KnowBe4 , a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform provider, launched a new tool designed to help IT managers combat CEO fraud, or Business Email Compromise (BEC) as it is referred to by the FBI. What happens if your users receive an email from a cybercriminal pretending to be your CEO requesting an urgent wire transfer?

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Clearly Payments

MARCH 4, 2024

With harvested data, perpetrators conducted unauthorized transactions, including wire transfers and credit card purchases, exploiting compromised accounts for financial gain. Elevated awareness of phishing scams and cybersecurity threats. The operation also involved money laundering tactics to obscure the origins of stolen funds.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Fraudsters Bank Billions Via Corporate Email Scams. Cybercriminals are making bank from wire transfer scams conducted through email — the FBI estimates more than $2.3 billion since 2013.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has now pegged total losses to BEC scams at $12 billion across 150 countries, marking a 136 percent rise in BEC cases between December 2016 and May 2018. “Wire transfer fraud is of particular concern for corporate treasury,” the company wrote. The tactic is relatively simple.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Federal authorities including the Department of Justice and the FBI announced Monday (June 11) that law enforcement arrested 74 people in the U.S. and overseas for engaging in international business email compromise schemes aimed at intercepting and stealing wire transfers from individuals and businesses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Cybercrime involving email scams are on the rise, as businesses and their AP officials receive these fraudulent emails that seemingly request legitimate money transfers by posing as a corporate executive or a supplier requesting payment. and elsewhere, the FBI found, leading to requests for $3.1 billion from cyberattackers since Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Just in the first four months of 2016, incidents of such scams increased by 270 percent. 2016, according to the FBI. billion, the FBI reported. That’s agnostic to whether it gets realized as a wire or ACH transaction,” Rojas said. A total of 17,642 reports of BEC were reported to authorities between Oct. 2013 and Feb.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

After a comprehensive investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Holmes was banned from the laboratory testing industry for two years and was ultimately charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice in summer 2018. In most scams, this would be the end of the story. The Outcome. The Outcome. The Outcome.

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