GetVerified New Zealand

20/05/2026

It’s been a real highlight for our team to onboard Givealittle to our API-connected automated account verification solution -

At the heart of what Givealittle does is helping New Zealanders support each other during some of life’s most challenging moments. Trust and confidence are critical in that environment, and we’re proud to support the team as they strengthen their onboarding process and help maintain the integrity of their platform.

A massive thank you to Lythan Chapman and Jeremy for your time and support.

You can read more about their account verification journey here https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0Tk5v0

Congratulations to the team on successfully automating their account verification process!

13/05/2026

“It’s here,” Hultquist said. “The era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here.”

As Google warned this week, attackers are already using AI to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in real-world systems before organisations even know they exist.

According to reports, Google disrupted an attempted attack where threat actors allegedly used AI to identify a weakness that enabled them to bypass two-factor authentication and gain access to a popular online administration tool. Google says it alerted the affected company and authorities before any harm occurred.

AI driven attacks can be used to hold companies and their data to ransom and extortion or, push through payments once access to systems has been obtained.

Impacts can quickly move beyond data exposure into:
• unauthorised payments
• supplier or payroll fraud
• account takeover
• impersonation attacks at scale

It's important that Kiwi businesses are aware of these global threats - technology matters, but so do people, processes, controls, and cross-sector collaboration.

“It’s here,” the chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat intelligence arm said, “the era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here.”

12/05/2026

We've been talking to businesses who have been blindsided by Direct Debit fraud. Here’s what you need to know about how this scam works and why your business might be at risk.

One of the biggest challenges is that onboarding and account changes are often built around trust, speed, and customer experience. Unfortunately, scammers know this too.

As scams become more sophisticated, businesses are increasingly needing to verify not just identities, but also bank account ownership and payment details before money moves.

We unpack:
• How Direct Debit onboarding scams typically work
• Why businesses can be exposed without realising
• The operational and financial impact when things go wrong
• Practical steps businesses can take to strengthen controls

Recent cases are raising broader questions about onboarding, identity verification, and payment authorisation controls in New Zealand.

07/05/2026

Awesome to work with businesses like Fiordland Lobster Company - helping them to strengthen their payment and onboarding controls as fraud and impersonation scams become more sophisticated.

Account verification is often thought of as something that happens at the point of payment, but increasingly businesses are recognising the value of checking account details much earlier in the process. This can include supplier onboarding, changes to payment details, payroll updates, customer refunds, and other operational workflows where trust and accuracy matter.

By embedding verification into day-to-day processes, organisations can help reduce the risk of misdirected payments, impersonation scams, admin overhead, and payment delays.

Thanks to the team at Fiordland Lobster Company for partnering with us and for taking proactive steps to help protect their business, suppliers, and wider payment ecosystem.

Read more below 👇

https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0QDpr0

06/05/2026

Why account verification should be a priority control for all Kiwi businesses.

"Bevan Lisle was enjoying an overseas holiday when he discovered he had been scammed out of $50,000. A junior staff member had sold his entire share portfolio and paid the proceeds into a bank account controlled by a scammer.

The staff member had been fooled by emails impersonating Mr Lisle.

“They got an email purporting to be from me, and they changed my bank account details without any further verification,” Mr Lisle said."

As scams become more sophisticated, businesses can no longer rely on email alone to validate payment changes or account details. Independent account verification is becoming an increasingly important control to help reduce the risk of payments being redirected to criminals.

While stories like this often focus on customer payments, the same risks exist across everyday business operations too, including supplier payments, payroll, refunds, and changes to employee bank account details.

Australians lost more than $2 billion to scammers in 2025, the latest data from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has revealed.

21/04/2026

In the UK, fraud accounts for more than 40% of crime against individuals, making it the most common offence. New Zealand presents a different picture on paper, with theft and related offences still the most commonly recorded crimes.

But that gap is likely narrower than it appears. Fraud and scams in New Zealand are significantly underreported, and the nature of these crimes is shifting quickly. As in the UK, a large proportion is driven by organised offshore groups, using digital tools to operate at scale.

This bbc article dives into these organised groups, why they're growing and how countries are looking to work together to fight back 💪

Scams have exploded over the last few years. Can countries and companies come together to turn the tables on the scammers?

15/04/2026

We love our customer stories. NZ Fuel Cards | integrated account verification to prevent fraud and scams, but in their words they have also:

"...slashed time spent checking bank account numbers. If we get the red exclamation mark, we know it doesn’t match, it’s a red flag immediately so we don’t waste our time progressing the application until it’s sorted out.”

Learn how we're helping to scam proof customer onboarding in this case study.
https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0M9bm0

A big thanks to the epic team for helping us with this story.

For almost 25 years, NZ Fuel Cards has helped businesses purchase fuel directly from suppliers and manage payments through a centralised card system. Today, the service issues fuel cards daily, offers a dedicated app, and provides a management and billing platform through FlexR. As fraudsters become...

15/04/2026

Most fraud happens well before payments leave the account.

Our business customers are using our account verfication tool to check bank accounts:

✅At supplier onboarding
✅At customer onboarding
✅During payroll updates
✅When any invoice details change, or
✅Account details get added and updated.

They're catching mistakes before the payment process and saving their team the time, money and stress that comes with incorrect bank details and scams.

08/04/2026

Business: Welcome to the fightback!

The fight against scams is now hitting businesses at speed and scale, through sophisticated impersonation, convincing document forgery and targeted cyber breaches.

Account verification is an easy and effective step businesses can take to strengthen processes before any money leaves the account. In fact, it can be used at any time, like at onboarding, to reduce admin, save time, and give teams greater confidence in the details they’re working with.

We're excited to be working with creative and media agency, Contagion on our new advertising campaign, urging businesses to keep strengthening protections against fraud and scams.

21/02/2025