The 5 scarily sophisticated scams targeting SMEs right now

Scam calls, texts and emails are increasing across the banking and fintech industry, and sadly the criminals behind these scams are getting ever more persuasive and sophisticated. Many of the latest scams focus on convincing the business owners themselves to send the cash directly to the criminals. While you may think that you wouldn’t get conned, the scenarios are so slick it’s as if the criminals behind them had trained in acting at RADA, picked up tech tips at MIT and combed the script of Mission Impossible for outlandish plans.  We want to make as many business owners as possible aware of the specific ploys being used by fraudsters right now. So, if you find yourself in any of the following situations alarm bells should ring…