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Fraudsters posed as art dealer, bilked museum for millions

February 3, 2020 0 Comments art, BEC, BEC scams, email spoofing, fraud, john constable, Law & order, painting, rijksmuseum twenthe, simon c. dickinson ltd., spoofed email

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:26:24 +0000

Scammers got away with a $3.1m BEC heist, art dealer and museum blame each other, and ownership of a valuable landscape is up in the air.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vWiUkpnODiM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook

December 23, 2019 0 Comments BEC scams, business email compromise, email fraud, facebook, fake invoice, Google, IC3, Law & order, whaling, whaling attack

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:35:28 +0000

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/D5CAYrR74gs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083

August 1, 2019 0 Comments BEC scams, business email compromise, Cabarrus County, fraud, Government security, Law & order, North Carolina, phishing, Scam, security threats, spearphishing, whaling

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:00:50 +0000

The county could only claw back some of the $2,504,601 it paid to a scammer posing as a contractor working on building a new high school.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/h5cAeqdGji8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>