📩 Everything seemed normal.
An email from an employee.
A routine request: change the payroll bank account.
Nothing unusual… until it is.
🚨 This type of fraud is already happening in real companies:
someone impersonates an employee, requests the change, and if it’s not verified… the money ends up in another account.
And the worst part 👇
❌ It doesn’t raise suspicion
❌ The message is well written
❌ It looks completely real
It happened to us too.
We received an email with this kind of request.
But before making any changes, we did something key:
👉 We confirmed it directly with the person 👤
Result: fraud attempt detected.
💡 Clear takeaway:
it’s not enough for an email to look real… it has to be.
Because here, a simple step can be the difference between:
✔️ just another task
❌ or a serious problem
🔐 Since then, one basic rule:
any sensitive change → direct verification.
Source: The fraud that can make you lose your salary with a fake email
