Business Email Compromise Scams
15 min! Run Time
Employees
only
Provided
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Business email compromise (BEC) scams target organizations through deceptive, targeted emails. This course helps you spot and respond to them.
What this course covers:
- How to identify a BEC scam
- The three main types of BEC attacks
- Warning signs to watch for in everyday email
- How to report a suspected attack
Short, focused training for any employee who uses email.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Frequently Asked Questions
The course teaches how to identify a business email compromise scam, since these attacks target organizations through deceptive, carefully targeted emails. That identification skill forms the base for everything else the course covers about warning signs and reporting.
It covers the three main types of BEC attacks, giving learners specific categories to recognize rather than a single generic definition of the scam. Understanding these types helps employees spot variations of business email compromise as they appear in daily inboxes.
The course points out warning signs to watch for in everyday email, helping learners catch a BEC attempt before it succeeds. These signs are drawn from how deceptive, targeted emails typically try to trick recipients within an organization.
It explains how to report a suspected attack, giving employees a clear next step once they've spotted a possible business email compromise scam. This reporting guidance completes the course's path from identification through to a concrete response.
This is short, focused training built for any employee who uses email, not a specialized security role. Its brevity matches its narrow scope: spotting and responding to business email compromise scams specifically, rather than cybersecurity topics generally.