Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker network had likely been spying on his communications with the title company and that although the email looked like others he had received from the title company, this time, the email address was slightly different. ADVERTISEMENTA week later, the title company called, advising him it was time to send money. They’re highly tailored to that particular victim,” said Gabriel Gundersen, an FBI supervisory special agent with the Oregon Cyber Task Force. George Chamberlin, assistant special FBI agent in charge of the Portland division, said such cases can take years to develop. His title firm, WFG National Title Insurance Company, hired him — for the same amount of money he lost — to be a spokesman to warn others about cyber scams.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 09, 2019 23:15 UTC