Fraud & Identity Theft
Deepfake voice calls drive new wave of CFO payment fraud
Finance teams report cloned executive voices requesting urgent supplier payments, often paired with lookalike email domains.
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In briefFinance teams report cloned executive voices requesting urgent supplier payments, often paired with lookalike email domains.
Attackers combine a short voice clone of a chief executive with an email from a domain that differs by one character from the real one.
Fraud teams say the calls are brief and urgent, and usually arrive late on a Friday when approvals are rushed.
The most effective control remains a callback to a known number before any change to supplier bank details is approved.
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