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Victim of half-million-dollar cybercrime tells tale of fighting back
It started out as an ordinary workday for Michelle Marsico, who runs a business based in Redondo Breach, Calif., handling escrow funds for clients in real estate. But when she went online to check the funds-transfer activity in her commercial bank account, she found to her horror that it had been cleaned out by cybercrooks to the tune of almost half a million dollars. Read More


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