Description

This so called company reached out to our accounts payable department via email requesting payment for an attached invoice for our CEO's membership purchase. Several emails were exchanged between our accounts payable person and this fake company regarding what this was about and discussed payments etc. It wasn't until the noted person in the email from our company was asked if they had in fact attempted to purchase this membership that we learned this was in fact a scam. They would only accept ACH payments, pressed for immediate payment to give a 20 percent discount, there was no phone number in the email signature, and the amount of money for the membership was excessive leading accounts payable to believe this was fraudulent. Accounts payable did look up the company's name on Google to research and did find a website set up and the scammer sent an invoice along with a W9 form. However, there were some slight differences in information related to the email, invoice, W9 and the company website.