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[quote=Anonymous]I used to own a regional title company.  An insane amount of money would pass through our escrow accounts so we were common targets of social engineering fraud, where someone tries to convince you to send money fraudulently.  We ran every software detection you can think of and literally did weekly quick company wide trainings on the topic.

We were tracking over 100 fraudulent emails trying to steal the escrow money PER MONTH, PER EMPLOYEE.  That is insane.

We are a long way from where we the prince of some made up country. My mantra was constantly, don't ever click a link that you don't know for certain what is on the other side.

It was an office environment.  The best ones that I can recall off the top of my head were all trojans that you installed by clicking on a link.  Here is a sampling:

Fake Fedex/ UPS tracking link
Fake attachment of a real estate contract
Fake unsubscribe button
Fake internal emails
Fale secure emails (like it looks like a secure email and you click the link to bring you to the secure email portal and the link itself was the trojan)

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