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* Register company domains that are slightly different
than the actual company domain.
* Verify changes in vendor payment location by adding
additional two-factor authentication such as having a
secondary sign-off by company personnel.
* Confirm requests for transfers of funds. When using
phone verification as part of two-factor authentication,
use previously known numbers, not the numbers provided
in the e-mail request. A phone call saved a Berks business
about $100,000.00. Sometimes the low-tech solution is
the best solution.

Pripyat, Ukraine
26 April 1986
At 1:23:58 A.M

By Clemson N. Page, Jr.

* Know the habits of your customers, including the
details of, reasons behind, and amount of payments.
* Carefully scrutinize all e-mail requests for transfers of
funds to determine if the requests are out of the ordinary.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A VICTIM
If funds are transferred to a fraudulent account, it is
important to act quickly:
* Contact your financial institution immediately upon
discovering the fraudulent transfer.
* Request that your financial institution contact the
corresponding financial institution where the fraudulent
transfer was sent.
* Contact your local Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) office if the wire is recent. The FBI, working with the
United States Department of Treasury Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, might be able to help return or
freeze the funds.
* File a complaint, regardless of dollar loss, with www.
ic3.gov or, for BEC/EAC victims, bec.ic3.gov.
My thanks to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
InfraGard which provides helpful advice and seminars for
InfraGard members regarding BEC/EAC and a variety of
cybersecurity and related matters.

We slept with windows open that night,
Our lovely land exhaling scents of pine and earth.
The twins - Yurochka and Annushka - had played
For hours in the sandy soil and now murmured softly in their sleep.
Next week would be easy -
Workers' International Solidarity Days
Would give Thursday and Friday as gifts of feasting and fishing.
At sunrise today, we'd go catch small fry
Where the power plant outflow pours into the cooling pond
A mile from the Chornobyl No. 4 electric power station.
We'd use the small fish to bait our hooks
When we went after perch and pike on the Pripyat River
During the holidays. The waters teemed with life.
And so our little world glided happily along in delicious spring.
We were as children skipping through the woods
With no inkling of perils we could not see, hear, touch, taste.
Two sharp detonations from Chornobyl No. 4
Stopped the clock for our poor village
For at least the next millennium,
Although for many the grace period was much shorter.
We stared at the pyrotechnics several miles away,
Like mice caught in the stare of Gadyuka, the viper,
While isotopes of death gathered in our hair,
On our clothes, in our childrens' thyroid glands.
Did you know ionizing radiation can give you an all-over tan,
Even if you are wrapped in fabric?

Martin A. Darocha, CPA
Tax and Accounting Services for Individuals and
Their Businesses, Estates and Trusts.

BCBA President-Elect Jeffrey
A. Franklin, Esquire, is chair of
the Association's Technology
Committee, practices law with
Prince Law Offices, P.C. and is
a principal of Brightline Tech
Solutions, LLC.

Old fashioned values and service,
up to date knowledge and advice!
Martin A. Darocha, CPA
marty@mdarochacpa.com

Juliedy Francabandera, CPA
Hablo Español
julie@mdarochacpa.com

38 East Lancaster Avenue, Shillington, PA 19607
PH: 610.775.7655 * FAX: 610.775.7655

www.mdarochacpa.com

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