Here are some specific examples of financial institutions being defrauded: 1. **Social Engineering Attack: Barclays Bank (2013)**: A woman posing as a wealthy customer convinced a Barclays teller to transfer £640,000 to her account over the phone. She used social engineering techniques to build trust, providing a string of fake account numbers and personal details that ultimately convinced the teller that the transfer was legitimate. 2. **Phone Scam: Tokai Bank (2011)**: A group of scammers used pre-recorded messages, pretending to be from the bank's security team, to trick customers into transferring money to fake accounts. A total of $13 million was transferred, with victims being told their accounts had been hacked and the transfers were necessary to protect their funds. 3. **Phishing: Stanford Federal Credit Union (2009)**: Stanford University employees were tricked through phishing emails that led to hackers giving away access to the credit union's systems. The scammers gained access to an account and withdrew $350,000 from it. 4. **Security Company Scam: ING Group (2010)**: A group of scammers infiltrated a security company and installed their equipment on ING Bank ATMs. The equipment recorded customers’ card information and PIN numbers, resulting in losses totaling approximately $700,000. 5. **Insider Manipulation: Privat Bank, Ukraine (2016)**: A senior bank employee worked with another scammer to use malware to hack into the bank’s systems and transfer $5 million to their own accounts. They exploited a gap in the bank’s security measures and used phishing emails to further gain access to the systems. 6. **Mail Drop Scam: Western Union (2019)**: A scam phishing campaign was sent to Western Union customers, impersonating Western Union’s security team and asking customers to verify account details. Customers were tricked into clicking on a link that appeared to be from Western Union, but ended up installing a Trojan virus, allowing the scammers to access customers’ accounts and personal information. 7. Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scam: Bank of New York (2020): An employee of Bank of New York was defrauded through a BEC scam, resulting in a total of $450,000 being transferred from a business account. The scammers defrauded the employee by pretending to be a company executive and instructing the employee to transfer funds. 8. ATM Escrow Services (2017): The ATM Escrow Services company was located in the United States. The scammers hacked into the company's security system and used their crypto card-нибудь to withdraw funds at various ATMs in Canada. In about a week, they withdrew funds from approximately 2,000 ATMs and made approximately $13 million. Please note that these incidents are highly complex and involve a combination of multiple methods and technologies. Financial institutions have strengthened their security measures over time and implemented more advanced protections to defend against such attacks.