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U.S. NEWS Monday 11 noveMber 2019

A Porsche is removed form the second story of a building after
the convertible went airborne and crashed into the second floor
of a New Jersey commercial building early Sunday, killing both
of the car's occupants, in Toms River, N.J.
Associated Press In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, photo, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge George Chamberlin, from
left, speaks as Gabriel Gundersen, an FBI supervisory special agent with the Oregon Cyber Task
2 dead after Porsche Force, center, and Loren Cannon, FBI special agent in charge of the Portland Division, in Portland,
Ore., to reporters about the rise of cybercrime in Oregon.
Associated Press
crashes into building's FBI: Cybercrimes on the rise

2nd floor because of sophisticated scams

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Po- DeMartin and 23-year-old
lice say a convertible trav- Daniel Foley, were de- By ANDREW SELSKY ly realized he had given on Friday. Now they can be
eling at high speed went ceased when emergency PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — away his family's life savings sophisticated. If people are
airborne and crashed into responders arrived at the On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron to criminals. The money asked via email to transfer
the second floor of a New scene. Cole was about to buy a was from the sale of their money under a deadline,
Jersey commercial build- Police said the structure, new house and received former house. they should not rush and in-
ing, killing both of the car's which was unoccupied an email that he thought "It was the worst feeling," stead call a known number
occupants. at the time, had been was from his title company, Cole said Friday. "And of the person the email is
Toms River police say the deemed unsafe by a build- directing him to make a then having to go home purportedly from and con-
red Porsche Boxster went ing inspector. Sgt. Vincent $123,000 deposit. and tell my wife that I just firm the request, the agents
out of control just after 6:30 Padalino said the build- Cole complied, not real- gave away all the money. said.
a.m. Sunday. The car hit ing, which is across from izing that a sophisticated She could tell right when I "The emails have gotten
the center median, struck Hooper Avenue Elementa- hacker network had likely walked in the house and well-crafted and quite
an embankment and went ry School, houses four busi- been spying on his commu- just sat down, and I just detailed. They're highly
airborne into the building. nesses, including a coun- nications with the title com- couldn't come up with the tailored to that particu-
Police said two Toms River seling service and a real pany and that although words to tell her." lar victim," said Gabriel
men, 22-year-old Braden estate company.q the email looked like others In 2015, $220 million was lost Gundersen, an FBI supervi-
he had received from the to wire fraud in the United sory special agent with the
title company, this time, the States. In 2019, losses will Oregon Cyber Task Force.
email address was slightly surpass $1.5 billion, accord- "It's a social engineering
different. ing to WFG National Title In- piece, where they're co-
A week later, the title com- surance Company. ercing a victim to do some-
pany called, advising him In the past, attempts to trick thing based on an artifi-
it was time to send money. people were often clumsy, cial agenda or an artificial
The Oregon man sudden- FBI agents told journalists timeline."q