Across
- 2. Masquerade as trustworthy person or business, in seemingly official electronic communication, like email
- 4. Seller may also say they're in military and need to sell car quickly due to upcoming deployment; subject often asks for funds to be wired to international company because of deployment, but funds are lost, and no sale occurs
- 6. Customer is told they must pay processing or exchange fees before they can collect their winnings
- 8. Customer is asked to deposit wrong check anyway and to return excess amount to subject
- 11. Subject sets up wire, customer may be confused when contacted that funds are leaving their account and may state transaction is valid
- 13. Lawyers can be defensive about questioning transactions because they feel that they're able to spot fraud
- 14. Customer may insist they know subject well and trust them implicitly, but subject is lying to customer
Down
- 1. Customer is usually told they're helping their employer avoid international fees or taxes
- 3. Vulnerable Person: 18 years of age or older, who an employee reasonably believes is in some way physically or mentally incapacitated and unable to protect their own interests.
- 5. May become acquainted with person but business website and investment are fictitious and subject disappears as soon as money is in their possession
- 7. Signer or sub – user received fraudulent email, with updated (changed) account instructions requesting for transaction or wire to be completed
- 9. Customer is asked to send payment for rental house to property owner directly
- 10. Fraudulent scheme where person attempts to obtain money from customer during false or dishonest transaction
- 12. Customer pulls in funds from account that may or may not belong to them, but those funds don't actually exist in external account