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Invoice Fraud Drills for Finance Teams
Six tabletop scenarios that train your finance team to spot vendor-impersonation, payroll diversion, and CEO fraud.
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CyberPhoenix Research
Why drills beat training
A finance team that has *practiced* spotting a scam in a low-stakes exercise spots it 5-8x more reliably in production than one that has only read a deck.
Six ready-to-run scenarios
- The bank-change email — long-term vendor "updates" their bank details Friday at 4:50pm
- The CEO travel wire — "I'm in a conference, push this through now"
- The payroll direct-deposit change — submitted by HR portal mid-quarter
- The M&A counsel — urgent confidential wire to escrow that "must close today"
- The vendor portal login prompt — link to refresh credentials
- The acquired subsidiary — new CFO sends instructions in first week
How to run one
- Block 45 minutes
- Use a realistic email replica delivered via tabletop tool (or a printed PDF)
- Capture every decision and timestamp
- Debrief: where would the verification have happened?
- Publish a one-page action list within 48 hours
Run quarterly. Track the curve.
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