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

A Single Fake Email Cost Facebook and Google $100 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, attached fraudulent invoices, and directed payments to bank accounts he controlled.

Carl B. Johnson Jun 03, 2026 6 min read