Fraud
Bank Account Change Scams: The Last Line — and the Most Broken One
The Simplest Fraud with the Highest Body Count Of all the payment fraud schemes that confront accounts payable and treasury functions, phony bank account change scams are, mechanically, among the simplest. An attacker — posing as a vendor, an employee, or an internal colleague — requests a change to banking information on file. The change is processed without independent verification. The next payment goes to the attacker's account instead of the legitimate recipient. By the time anyone notices
Vendor Impersonation Fraud: How It Works and How to Stop It
The Fraud That Starts Before the Invoice Arrives Vendor impersonation fraud is not a new phenomenon. Organizations have always faced the risk of someone claiming to be a supplier they are not. What has changed is the precision, the scale, and the sophistication of the deception — and the degree to which a threat once associated with unsophisticated schemes has evolved into one of the most technically and operationally advanced forms of payment fraud facing AP functions today. According to the
Business Email Compromise
The Attack That Doesn't Need to Hack Anything Most fraud prevention thinking is organized around technical intrusion — firewalls, endpoint security, multi-factor authentication. Business Email Compromise largely ignores all of it. The most financially damaging form of cyber-enabled payment fraud in the world today does not, in most cases, require the attacker to penetrate a network, plant malware, or exploit a software vulnerability. It requires only a convincing email and an AP or treasury fun
Payment Fraud Prevention Strategies
The Question Is No Longer Whether — It's When Every organization that disburses funds is a target. That is not a rhetorical provocation; it is the operating reality that fraud data consistently confirms. The 2024 Report to the Nations from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found that a typical organization loses five percent of its annual revenue to fraud. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Business Email Compromise alone accounted for more than $3 billion in los