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Fake Email: How to Spot, Stop, and Survive One

A Single Fake Email Cost Facebook and Google $120 Million Between 2013 and 2015, a Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas sent a series of fake email messages to employees at Facebook and Google. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, complete with forged invoices and contracts. By the time both companies

Carl B. Johnson Aug 31, 2021 7 min read
Fake Email

Fake Email: How to Spot, Report, and Stop It

In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated category of fake email — caused adjusted losses exceeding $2.9 billion in a single year. That wasn't from exotic zero-day exploits. It was from emails that looked real but weren'

Carl B. Johnson Feb 28, 2020 7 min read