Fraudsters are trying out a new approach to convince companies to pay bogus invoices: instead of hijacking existing email threads, they are creating convincing ones themselves. A clever payment request fraud The fraud attempt begins with an email containing a payment request for a fake invoice. The recipient – an employee in the company’s finance department – reads the email and checks who sent it. The sender’s email address looks like it belongs to one … More →

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