Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticat

As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts, they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, andsell the data to competitors.

Option Elimination -
Beware of many deceptions GMAT has been using, especially in the "Not only...but also" idiom.
Not only X but also Y demands strict parallelism. Moreover, this construction places an equal significance on X and Y.
But if we need to present a contrast, we need X but Y. Here is a good deceiving question with X but also Y (don't jump to conclude and make a rule that it ok to use but also without not only. This question is an example of X but Y and not at all for the "not only but also" idiom. https://gmatclub.com/forum/not-only-did
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 14 Jun 2016, 08:42 • Replies 97 • Views 157285

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