Business email compromise and payment fraud
Spot fake executive requests and changed bank details, and verify payments through a second channel every time.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 25 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Recognize executive impersonation and gift-card requests.
- Treat any change of payment details as unverified until confirmed by phone on a known number.
- Escalate suspected fraud immediately, even after payment.
Course outline
- 1.Business email compromise and payment fraudVideo · 3 min
- 2.Money requests get a second channelLesson · 8 min
- 3.How email accounts get hijacked for fraudLesson · 8 min
- 4.Payment controls that stop fraudLesson · 8 min
- 5.Business email compromise and payment fraud: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 22 questions
- 6.Supplier says their bank details changedScenario
- 7.Final exam6 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.
- FBI IC3: Business Email Compromise public service announcements
- CISA: Protecting Against Business Email Compromise
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