Interactive

Email Fraud

How One Message Becomes Millions in Losses

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, attendees will be able to:

  • Explain the three-phase email fraud attack cycle—Access, Surveillance, and Execution—and describe what occurs in each phase
  • Identify the technical indicators of a compromised account, including geolocation anomalies, device and environmental anomalies, and behavioral infrastructure changes such as unauthorized email forwarding rules
  • Recognize transactional velocity red flags, including rapid outbound movement, threshold avoidance, and pre-velocity checks, that signal fraudulent account activity
  • Distinguish between the emotional manipulation tactics used in email fraud, including urgency, fear, and false reward, and explain how each is designed to bypass rational judgment.

 

1.2 ACFE 1 HR
Included with Team Membership

About This Course

Course Overview: How One Message Becomes Millions in Losses

This course exposes the hidden tactics behind one of today’s most costly financial crimes. Learners experience how skilled attackers infiltrate inboxes, monitor behavior, and launch convincing fraud attempts.

Follow the journey of a business controller, a frontline banker, and a fraud analyst as they investigate a realistic email compromise from the first phishing message to the final recovery effort. Along the way, you’ll learn to detect emotional manipulation, identify red flags, analyze suspicious patterns, and respond swiftly during the critical recovery window.

This interactive course equips both frontline and back‑office professionals with the awareness, tools, and confidence to stop email fraud before it turns into financial loss.

Agenda

  • The Email Fraud Threat Landscape
  • The Attack Cycle
  • Frontline Red Flags
  • Fraud Investigator’s Deep Dive
  • Response, Recovery, and Reporting

Audience: Frontline staff or new back office fraud investigation team

This course takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

 

*This course does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation. 

CPE & Accreditation

This course qualifies for 1.2 ACFE. Your certificate and transcript are available immediately upon completion.

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ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners)

This program is applicable for compliance or recertification CPE(s) through the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Please visit the ACFE website for further clarification: https://www.acfe.com/cfe-credential/continuing-professional-education-cpe-requirements. This program is applicable for the CPE(s) listed to the right of this page.

Requesting CE:
Upon completion of this course, please email creditrequest@nogginguru.com to obtain a CE certificate.

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