Documented social engineering incidents targeting the real estate sector, sourced and fact-checked.
A federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina indicted 12 people on 12 counts (conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering) for a nationwide BEC ring that monitored hacked/compromised business email accounts, spoofed emails from trusted insiders and vendors to redirect wire payments, and laundered more than $25 million through sham U.S. companies before sending proceeds overseas.
ConfirmedA Metropolitan Police officer spotted customers' passports and tax-credit paperwork clearly visible through transparent bin bags left on the street outside an unidentified Robertson, Smith & Kempson estate agent branch, and after the agency ignored an initial ICO warning and repeated the practice, the ICO secured a formal undertaking rather than a fine.
Social Engineering Examples