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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Account Takeover and Business Email Compromise Fraud: Legally Puzzling Payments Problems

In a series of three articles, we will address the ascendency of account takeover (“ATO”) and business email compromise (“BEC”) fraud — the unfortunate occurrence where a payor or intended payee’s account is compromised,...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Business email compromise: What you can do to prevent fraud and recover funds

Fight back against this major cyber threat. Business Email Compromise is one of the greatest cyber threats to businesses of all sizes and industries, particularly those involved in regular wire transfers of funds....more

Jones Day

DOJ's Business Email Compromise Takedown Illustrates Pervasiveness of Internet Fraud Schemes

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On June 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the internationally coordinated arrests of 74 individuals involved in a series of multimillion-dollar business email compromise schemes ("BEC"). Although these...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Court Holds Crime Policy Covers Business Compromise Email Loss

The “business compromise email” is what the FBI calls the “$5 billion scam,” but apparently an insurance company did not agree with an insured company that they had been the victim of a crime....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Business E-mail Compromise Scam v2.0

In March, we reported on the Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) scam where criminals target employees responsible for wiring company money, and trick them into wiring money under false pretenses to fraudulent accounts...more

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