Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise (BEC/EAC) is a sophisticated scam that targets both businesses and individuals who perform legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. The scam is ...

Nine members of a multi-state money laundering operation were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in Nashville in November; four were residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They were charged ...

Criminals have been targeting businesses and individuals to try and scam them out of their hard-earned money for years. With technology continuing to evolve, so has the tactics and techniques of ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently seized about $3.5 million that was stolen through a scam called “Business Email ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. The Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a scam perpetrated by scammers who, using ...

An email from a work colleague requesting a funds transfer may seem routine, but quite often it could lead to serious fraud if completed. That type of fraud—business email compromise—is the top avenue ...

The FBI has urged organizations to be on high alert for business email compromise (BEC) attempts, after revealing that the cybercrime category has amassed tens of billions of dollars for threat actors ...

Has your company recently been hit by a business email compromise (“BEC”)? This type of cybersquatting and phishing appears to be on the rise. Here’s what happens: A bad actor registers a domain name ...