Recognizing suspicious payment requests

Skills you'll practise

• Recognize common signs of a fraudulent payment request
• Verify a bank-detail change using independent contact details
• Explain why urgency and secrecy are warning signs
• Report a suspected fraud attempt correctly

Course outline

1. 1.Suspicious payment requestsVideo · 1 min
2. 2.Changed bank details and fake urgencyLesson · 12 min
3. 3.Fake invoices and supplier impersonationLesson · 13 min
4. 4.If a payment goes wrong: act fastLesson · 11 min
5. 5.Recognizing suspicious payment requests: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 19 questions
6. 6.Urgent payment request from 'the CEO'Scenario
7. 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• General payment-fraud awareness: business email compromise and changed bank details