Protecting yourself on the internet: don’t get hooked by phishing

RBC | Over the last eight years as a private investigator, a significant portion of my cases have been something referred to as “Business Email Compromise.” Typically, what happens is a high-level employee’s email account is “broken into” by hackers. The said hackers then spend some time reading the employee’s emails to see how the company the employee works for performs money transfers. In most cases, the hackers attempt to impersonate an executive and request…