Money sent to a fraudster · United States

What details must I give law enforcement after a fraudulent wire?

FinCEN lists nine details required when the complaint is filed: the account name and number on both sides, both banks, the country of each bank's branch, a summary of the fraud, the date of the wire, and the currency and amount.

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Which details are required?

The following information is required to be provided at the time of filing a complaint with law enforcement:

  1. Your account name and number.
  2. The receiving account's name and number.
  3. Your bank's name.
  4. The receiving bank's name.
  5. The country of your bank's branch that sent the payment.
  6. The country of the receiving bank's branch.
  7. A summary of the fraud.
  8. The date of the wire.
  9. The currency and the amount.
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What else helps?

Your bank can give you that reference. FinCEN also asks for as much detail about the scheme as possible: keep the emails and the instructions as they arrived.

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payment reference code from the victim bank

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What can an outside reading tell you after a payment fraud?

An outside reading cannot see your mailboxes, so it cannot tell you whether someone signed in to one.

It can show three things that bear on how a fraud like this reaches a firm: whether your DMARC record tells mail servers to refuse mail forged in your name, which look-alike domains of yours are registered, and which addresses at your domain are listed in breach data from other services.

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