Covers the tactics behind fake mail, including spoofed emails, forged sender addresses, and fraudulent messages designed to deceive recipients. Articles under this tag help readers identify illegitimate communications and protect their inboxes from manipulation.
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In 2023, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after receiving what appeared to be a legitimate video call and email chain from the company's CFO. It was all fake — the video was a deepfake, and the emails were
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that phishing — including fake mail delivered via email, text, and voice — was the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year, with over 298,000 complaints. And that only accounts for what gets reported. In my experience,
In May 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated form of fake mail — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number has only grown. I've personally worked cases where a single convincing email
In January 2024, a finance employee at Arup — a multinational engineering firm — joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The employee transferred $25 million to accounts controlled by threat actors. The attack
91% of Cyberattacks Start With Fake Mail That's not a guess. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that phishing was present in 36% of breaches — up from 25% the year before. And when you broaden the lens to include all forms of social engineering delivered through
The Fake Mail That Drained $37 Million In 2024, Toyota Boshoku Corporation disclosed a business email compromise attack where a threat actor used fake mail to trick a finance executive into wiring approximately $37 million to a fraudulent bank account. The email looked legitimate. The sender address was nearly identical
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated form of fake mail — caused adjusted losses exceeding $2.9 billion. That single category of email fraud outpaced every other cybercrime type in financial damage. And those are just the cases that got
