Fake Invoice Attacks

Invoice fraud campaigns blend stolen branding, prior email threads, and urgent payment language.

Attackers often learn timing by watching compromised mailboxes before inserting themselves into legitimate billing cycles.

The fraud succeeds when finance teams lack verification rules for bank detail changes.

AP teams at growing mid-market companies

Professional services and agencies

Organizations with decentralized purchasing

Repeated invoices with slightly changed bank accounts.

Urgent requests referencing a real project manager or vendor.

Fake collections notices sent from spoofed legal domains.

Direct payment loss and vendor relationship fallout.

Time-consuming reconciliation and audit cleanup.

Possible contractual disputes about whether payment was actually made.

Lock down vendor master data changes.

Call known contacts before updating payment details.

Use email security against display-name and domain spoofing.

Review approval workflows for exceptions and bypasses.