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That Tuesday in October when a client's inbox got hit with a fake invoice scam
I was on a call with a marketing director at a small SaaS company in Austin. She mentioned their CFO almost wired $12,000 to a fake vendor because the email looked exactly like their real billing system. The only thing that saved them was the receptionist noticed the domain was off by one letter. They had no email security training and no verification process for wire transfers. I spent the rest of that week helping them set up DMARC and a simple two-person approval rule. Has anyone here dealt with a similar close call from a client?
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grace8922d ago
All it takes is one letter off in an email domain to remind us how fragile trust really is these days.
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eric_knight721d ago
One letter off and they almost lost $12,000?" That's insane, man.
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Bet the whole thing could have been avoided if they just double checked the domain before hitting send, right? Do you think companies should be required to verify domain spelling before processing big transfers or is that too much red tape?
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