Online Financial Fraud
Business Email Compromise/Email Takeover
A company email is copied or taken over. The new mail asks you to pay a different bank account.
How Scam Works?
This chat is made up. It shows how the trick usually sounds. It is not a real message. Do not reply, and do not send money.
Demonstration
Email to accounts
A supplier’s name, from a lookalike address
Scam message
Our bank account has changed. Use the new details on this invoice for today’s payment. The old account is closed.
What you might say
I will call your accounts team on the usual number.
Scam message
They are in audit. Do not call. Pay from this mail so the shipment is not held.
Call the supplier on the number you already have before you change any bank account.
- 01
The mail looks like a real bill
It may come from a stolen inbox, or from an address that looks almost the same.
- 02
Only the account number changes
The amount and the company name look normal. The place the money should go is new.
- 03
The payment goes to the wrong people
A phone call to the real supplier, on a saved number, stops this.