You paid a fraudster’s invoice.
An email that looked exactly like your supplier. An account number quietly changed. The money gone before anyone noticed. Business email compromise is now among the most common frauds in Australia, and recovery is possible, but it is measured in hours and days, not weeks.
Right now
- Call your bank immediately and ask it to request a recall and a freeze on the recipient account. Funds are sometimes stopped in transit or frozen before they scatter.
- Preserve the emails, including full headers, on both sides. Delete nothing. The metadata shows whose system was compromised.
- Tell the real supplier. One of you is compromised, and more false invoices may already be in motion.
- Check your own systems quietly. The intruder may still have access.
- Get advice fast. Courts can freeze recipient accounts and order banks to disclose where the money went next.
What we do
We obtain urgent freezing and disclosure orders, trace the funds through the accounts they passed into, and pursue recovery. Where the loss sits between you and your supplier, who bears it can turn on fine details, and we advise on that too.
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Talk to us today
All consultations are private and confidential. For urgent matters please call +61 3 8676 7929. Telephone is answered out of hours. Contact us
