Phishing and social engineering attacks to divert wire transfers or invoice payments are not new fraud techniques, but they have recently taken a back seat to ransomware as posing the greatest ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Imagine saving for years for a new home and then having your down payment disappear in the blink of an eye. Real estate wire fraud is now among the fastest growing scams in the U.S.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the perfect time to provide some common-sense tips to avoid a common risk facing businesses: business email compromise and wire fraud. Businesses of all ...

St. Johns County is issuing an urgent warning to residents about an emerging wire transfer scam targeting customers ...

I’ve never been a detective, FBI agent, private investigator, or internet security analyst. But despite this lack of accreditation and work experience, I do know that you have to be aware of hackers ...

Tim Myers was about to close on a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when the email he’d been expecting popped into his inbox. His mortgage loan officer sent wire instructions for his down payment, along ...

If your small business wires money through a financial institution on a regular basis, it's a good idea to be aware of the federal regulations that affect wire transfers. These regulations contain ...

When Maryland residents Roger and Shirl Lynn Butschky sold their home in East Naples more than a year ago, they didn't get their money after the closing. Every dime — more than $450,000 — went to a ...

If you feel as if spam emails and phone calls increased astronomically in 2020, you’re not wrong. It’s not just you deleting hundreds of fraudulent emails and ignoring a barrage of fake phone calls.