Documented social engineering incidents targeting the construction & engineering sector, sourced and fact-checked.
Fraudsters posing as Tecnimont's group CEO, other executives, and a fictitious Swiss lawyer used spoofed emails and a staged series of conference calls.
ConfirmedA federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina indicted 12 people on 12 counts (conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud.
ConfirmedA compromised email address was used to redirect a $30,750 solar-panel-installation payment from a Wheeling.
ConfirmedScammers hijacked a real invoice thread between an Arkansas school district, its contractor, and its architect.
ConfirmedA Houston- and California-based ring spoofed business emails to trick five companies and a New Jersey township into wiring over $2.5 million.
ConfirmedScammers impersonating a school construction contractor sent a forged bank-account-change request, and Cabarrus County.
ConfirmedA finance employee in Arup's Hong Kong office wired HK$200M (~US$25.6M) after a video conference in which the CFO and colleagues were all AI-generated.
ConfirmedA complex criminal phishing scheme induced Argan, Inc. to send two outbound wires in March 2023, producing a roughly $3 million pre-tax loss.
Social Engineering Examples