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| FBI issues alert on email fraud - Yes, the same FBI that is investigating the Beest's email |
| 2015-08-29 |
| Hey Bert, look at this ! [Examiner] The FBI has issued an alert about email scams targeting people and businesses that have been reported in all 50 states and 79 countries, with a majority of stolen funds going to banks in China. The agency distinguishes between schemes that target business, or business email compromise scams, and those targeting individuals, In its Thursday release, the FBI said scammers had developed a new method for fraudulently extracting money from businesses. The scammers have been calling companies purporting to be attorneys or representatives of law firms handling time-sensitive This is the latest tactic in the development of business email fraud. The FBI issued an alert in January warning of the activity, which is based on gaining access to a single person's email account and finding a contact in that account who will respond favorably to a request to wire money. If the hackers access a vendor account, the FBI explained, they may use the account to ask a business to wire funds for a legitimate invoice payment to an alternate, fraudulent account. If they hack a company executive, they may email another employee within the company who is responsible for processing payments asking that employee to send money to a given bank account. You mean, they could hack a sitting Secretary of State and then email Dianne Feinstein or the President? I hope we've had someone in McLean on the look-out for such activities. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |