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Depends on what the end goal is. Wire fraud? Sure. Typically a Business Email Compromise will try and compromise the account credentials to use it as a location to send other mass phishing attacks to their contacts, gain access to sensitive information the user had, or laterally move between systems and further compromise the organization. In that case, you would want the message to appear as legitimate as possible to gain access to the highest privileged accounts.