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Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam


A Texas company says it lost $60 million to a criminal fraud scheme, which the FBI says makes fraudsters billions of dollars every year.

EliseAI employs an army of chatbots to text with, email, and respond to calls from renters about things such as apartment tours, maintenance requests, lease renewals and delinquencies. Kiteworks, which builds tools to secure email communications and file sharing, has raised $456 million from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire VC Peter Thiel’s campaign to bury the media outfit for posting excerpts from…

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