16/01/2025
Warning ⚠️ There has been alot of this going on. If you receive an invoice via email with a change of bank details, please follow this up with a phone call to the supplier. It takes very little time, and it ensures that the money you are about to pay is going to the right person. This particular company paid the invoice into the fraudulent bank account, and have now, via the court system, been made to pay the invoice again plus interest. Always be vigilant.
In a likely precedent-setting court case involving two companies, a business that received a fraudulent invoice email is ordered to pay costs to an electrical contractor who was hacked.