Preventing Corporate Email Scams
As long as there has been email there have been email scams. Bad actors trying to get something that doesn’t belong to them or that they have no right to. No one knows for sure how much is truly lost to this criminal element worldwide, but according to the United States government, reported business email compromise (BEC) scams accounted for losses of $1.7 billion in 2019. These losses were from the 23,775 cases that were reported and are one of the most financially damaging online crimes. Additionally, this figure represents only those cases reported at the federal level.