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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/25/2016 12:51 PM, Rob Rowley
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 25, 2016 12:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>Subject:</b> Alert to Licensees About Fraud</span></p>
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is a message from the Washington State
Department of Financial Institutions</span></strong></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in"><b>Beware
of phishing scams in connection with wire
transfers and the release of other private
information</b></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">The
Department wants to caution licensees about “social
engineering” scams targeting licensees and their
customers. Social engineering scams are when hackers
use information about the target gathered from
various social media sites or online avenues to gain
access to sensitive facets of the victim’s
identities. Phishing is a type social engineering
scam whereby the scammer attempts to acquire
sensitive information, often for malicious reasons,
by masquerading as a trustworthy entity that seems
identical to a trusted sender. There are several
different kinds of phishing scams, such as spear
phishing or clone phishing.</p>
<p
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attempts directed at specific individuals or
companies have been termed “spear phishing.”
Attackers may gather personal information about
their target to increase their probability of
success. For example, a licensee’s employee may
receive what is believed to be an email from another
employee requesting personal information. Such
information could be used to file false income tax
returns and to direct refunds to the scammer’s bank
account in addition to other forms of identity
theft.</p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">“Clone
phishing” is when a legitimate, and previously
delivered, email has had its content and recipient
address(es) taken and used to create an almost
identical or cloned email. Often times the email
will contain an attachment or link that will be
replaced with a malicious version and then sent from
an email address spoofed to appear to come from the
original sender. It may claim to be a resend of the
original or an updated version to the original. For
example, a customer could receive an email that
appears very similar to a licensee’s email
(including a logo very similar to the licensee’s
logo) that requests the client to wire funds to a
bank. If the customer assumes the email is
legitimate and wires funds to the bank indicated in
the email instructions, the customer stands to lose
their money.</p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">The
Department reminds its licensees to be aware of
social engineering scams. Licensees may want to
provide training to its employees or caution its
clients about being wary of emails requesting
personal information even if the email purports to
be from a trusted source. Verifying in person with
whomever is requesting the personally identifiable
information may help ensure private information
remains secure. In the case of transactions
involving wire transfers, licensees may want to
inform clients to request verbal confirmation of
wire transfer details before proceeding. Also, if
funds are going to a licensee’s trust account, the
licensee may want to provide advance notice to the
customer that wire transfers will only be made to
the licensee’s trust account at a specific bank.
Based on recent reports, these scams are becoming
more sophisticated and convincing. We encourage our
licensees to do their part to avoid falling victim
to such scams and to do their part to prevent fraud
to their customers.</p>
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