In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are blessed with the ability to quickly and efficiently make wire payments for fees and expenses for hundreds of thousands of US dollars and even millions of US dollars in a single transfer. The wire transfer can be simply requested by email from a company representative to the company’s bank to execute the wire transfer. Whilst that efficiency allows businesses to spend more time on the business itself rather than on administrative tasks, it has also left businesses exposed to the risk of email wire fraud. Over the last two years, there has been a recent dramatic increase in email wire fraud scams (also known as “Business Email Compromise Scams” or “BEC scams”) perpetrated against companies worldwide whereby funds are wired to fraudsters’ bank accounts in Hong Kong.