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Originally Posted by cabmando
Wanna talk interesting scam? A friend sold a machine to a person in NY. He sends his wire instructions to the buyer. The buyer receives another email appearing to be from my friend with new wire instructions. Buyer sends money to new wire instructions without calling my friend to confirm. Buyer is now out money. How did they know about the wire instructions my friend sent?
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Reminds me of wire fraud where the victims were local residents here - $780K. I don't know whose system compromised, the buyers' or the lender's... I think they were able to recover the money but not sure if the scammers were caught.