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‘Lone Wolf’ Scammer Built a Multifaceted BEC Cybercrime Operation

This wasn’t the first time the chief financial officer of email security vendor Agari had been targeted in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. As with the first incident in August 2018, three months later Agari’s software tool flagged a suspicious email meant for its CFO, Raymond Lim, that posed as a supplier requesting a wire transfer for an invoice payment.

Agari researchers played along with the scammers as they had done in the August incident, impersonating the CFO’s administrative assistant and stringing them along for about a month, gathering intel on the people and operation behind the November emails.

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