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[Jan 15, 2026]
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Rexxfield
How Business Email Compromise Works Inside Corporations
Hey, I’m the CEO, can you send me an urgent wire transfer? Can you run an errand and pick up a few gift cards? CEO impersonation are one of the most common Business Email Compromise attacks. What often starts as an innocent spam-looking email can quickly turn into thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars
[Sep 26, 2024]
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Rexxfield
The Rising Threat of Authorised Push Payment Fraud: What You Need to Know
The insidious threat of Authorised Push Payment Fraud. In an era where digital transactions have become the norm, a new form of financial crime is on the rise – a scam type called Authorised Push Payment fraud (APP). This type of sophisticated scam has left thousands of individuals and businesses out of pocket, with losses
[Sep 23, 2024]
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Rexxfield
Urgent: Rethink Your Approach to BEC Scam Response*
A Message to Bank and Financial Institution Fraud and AML Investigation Teams: In the face of rising Business Email Compromise ( BEC scams ), it’s time to reassess how we guide victims. Traditionally, financial institutions have directed customers to report these crimes to the FBI’s IC3.gov portal. However, recent data suggests this approach to BEC
[Apr 11, 2024]
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Rexxfield
How to Prevent Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks
In recent years, Business Email Compromise (BEC) has surged, with losses reaching staggering heights. In 2023 alone, businesses in the United States reported losses close to $2.76 billion due to these scams. This isn’t just an alarming statistic—it’s a wake-up call highlighting the vulnerability of businesses, NGOs and even government agencies to these sophisticated cyber
[Apr 02, 2024]
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Rexxfield
7 Types of Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks
Many types of Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams present a sophisticated threat to organizations worldwide, exploiting the most vulnerable element of security measures: human psychology. Unlike traditional cyber-attacks that rely on brute force or complex hacking techniques, BEC attacks harness the simplicity of email communication to orchestrate fraud. By masquerading as legitimate email correspondences, BEC
[Jan 23, 2024]
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Rexxfield
Email Impersonation
Email impersonation is often associated with malicious practices, such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), reputation damage, fake invoicing, and phishing schemes. The objective behind email impersonation is to defraud individuals or businesses of their money while staying anonymous through concealing the identity of the sender. Within BEC attacks, scammers use impersonation to dupe employees into
[Oct 18, 2023]
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Rexxfield
Paypal Invoice Scams
Invoice scams are on the rise. 1,600 people search for “PayPal invoice scams” every month in the US alone. Add that to other invoice scams pretending to come from Best Buy subsidiary The Geek Squad, accounting package Quickbooks, and even anti-virus software like Norton. This all adds up to tens of thousands of people each
[Mar 21, 2023]
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Rexxfield
6 Ways To Not Be A Victim Of Business Email Compromise
A little known scam type has become the most lucrative type there is. Are you at risk? Is your business at risk? It’s called Business Email Compromise or BECs for short, and in 2022 on average each victim lost USD$125,000. If you own a business or are a business executive or general manager with authority
[Mar 03, 2023]
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Rexxfield