Vendor bank-detail change
Email says the vendor's bank details changed; payments get redirected.
How to spot it
- Bank change by email
- Urgency
- Reply-To differs
What to do
Verify any bank change by calling the number already on file, never one in the email.
What the real thing looks like
- A routine invoice with unchanged bank details paid through the normal process
Try an example
A practice example with fictional companies. Answer it, then see the tells.
Is this email a scam or legit?
FromFrom: Northwind Medical Supply - Accounts ReceivableSender address: ar@northwind.example
Reply-Tonorthwind.ar@mailbox-live.example
Tome
Updated remittance details
Hello,
Our bank has changed. Please pay invoice 2245 to the new account in the attached form and reply to confirm.
- Attachment: New-remittance-details.pdf (81 KB)
Sure and right: +15. Sure and wrong: -5. Calling a legitimate item a scam counts as a miss.
Test yourself on eight more
The free quiz mixes scams with legitimate messages, like real life. No sign-up.