Now is probably a good time to remind everyone to double and triple check the correct routing numbers before wiring money. Call the recipient via numbers you’ve obtained outside of the email to ensure wiring instructions are correct. Make sure they’ve received the money once you’ve sent it. I’ve been reading more reports of fraudulent addresses being sent via email resulting in large sums of money disappearing. Here is an example from today:
“Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client’s real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a “spoofed” email address, the affidavit said.”
