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Police Recover Over $40m Headed to BEC Scammers

ID: 230efd87-a444-5ec5-a9cd-846927de6836

STIX ID: report--230efd87-a444-5ec5-a9cd-846927de6836

Feed Name: Infosecurity Magazine (News)

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2024-08-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

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A Singaporean commodity firm was defrauded via a business email compromise and transferred $42.3M to a spoofed supplier account in Timor Leste; Interpol’s I-GRIP mechanism and the Singapore Police Force intervened to recover roughly $41M+, leading to arrests and the return of funds to the victim, underscoring the financial scale of BEC scams and the value of rapid international cooperation.

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