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The emails were nearly identical to prior legitimate emails sent over the company’s email account, but the fraudulent emails instructed victims to wire funds to a bank account that was set up by money mules at the direction of Ponle, the complaint states. Ponle then instructed the mules to convert the fraud proceeds to Bitcoin and send them to a virtual wallet that Ponle owned and operated....BEC scams have been on the FBI's radar for some time now. This reality became evident in September 2019 when the law enforcement body announced that BEC ruses had caused more than $26 billion in damages between June 2016 and July 2019. Those damages were the products of over 150,000 incidents that preyed upon individuals spread across all 50 states and 177 countries. As of this writing, the U.S. District Court of Chicago had scheduled a detention hearing for Ponle on July 9. The activities of Ponle and attackers like him highlight the need for organizations to detect a BEC scam campaign. They can leverage these recommendations to do so.