fake invoice
Fraudulent payment request
A fake invoice is a fraudulent billing document created to deceive—either to extract payment for goods or services never provided, or to create false records for tax evasion, embezzlement, or money laundering.
Scammers send fake invoices hoping recipients will pay without verifying: The company lost thousands to fake invoices before tightening its approval process.
In business fraud schemes, fake invoices create paper trails for nonexistent transactions.
- fraudulentInvolving intentional dishonesty
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- forgeryCreating fraudulent imitations
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- financial crimeIllegal acts involving money
billing · counterfeit · swindle · embezzlement · cooked books · bogus · scheme · receipt · payment · accounting · ledger · vendor · shell company · front company · wire transfer · money trail · audit · due diligence
- spamspam, junk mail, spam filter, spam folder, bulk mail
- forgeriesforged passport, forged signature, forged check, counterfeit, forged letters
- online scamsphishing, scam, email scam, advance fee scam, Nigerian prince scam
- scamsscam, scams, fraud, frauds, swindle
- mail crimesmail fraud, postal fraud, mail theft, mail tampering, postal theft