'Can you do me a favor?' How to protect yourself from business email scams

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'Can you do me a favor?' Here's how to protect yourself from business email scams. - NBCNewsBETTER

The crooks send an email designed to look like it’s from the CEO to the CFO or someone authorized to make wire transfers. It instructs them to handle an “urgent matter” by making an immediate payment. To discourage checking back with the CEO, the bogus email states that they are out of the office or tied up in meetings and can’t be reached.In this scenario, the phony email appears to come from a known contractor or vendor who claims to have changed bank accounts.

“Don't text them, if you received this message by text; don't e-mail them, if you receive this message by email because a hacker might have control of that,” explained Amy Nofziger, director of . “Call your boss or whoever made the request at the phone number you have for them and verify that this is something that they're really asking you to do.”

 

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