You’ve seen the schemes before: a phony email offering a deal on office supplies, an invoice impersonating a business-to-business partner, or a fake notification to an up-and-coming small business that they’ve won an obscure award.
While the consistent attacks are recognizible to some, in 2022 scammers are exploiting small businesses in a novel way — leveraging struggles related to the pandemic, said Adah Rodriguez, vice president of development and operations for the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado.
Scammers now weaponize inflation, supply chain issues and reliance on remote work, and it’s important for companies to refamiliarize themselves…
