The number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. Feds highlighted that most of the fraudulent activities leveraged on China and Hong Kong banks as receipt of fraudulent funds. The authorities observed that banks in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Turkey have also been identified recently as prominent destinations for fraudulent funds. According to the FBI, the number of scam incidents in the US was 41,058 resulting in $2.9 billion in losses.”]
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