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DEBI BUSH | CMIT SOLUTIONS
Five strategies to protect your
business from email compromise
I
n late January, the FBI and the Internet Crime
Complaint Center released a public service
announcement about the recent proliferation
of Business Email Compromise (BEC). Defined by the FBI as a “sophisticated global scam
targeting small to large businesses,” BECs affected
more than 2,000 victims worldwide in 2014, while
inflicting upwards of $