fake invoices
Fabricated payment requests
Fake invoices are fraudulent billing documents sent to trick recipients into paying for goods or services never ordered or delivered.
Scammers count on busy accounting departments processing payments without verification: The company lost thousands to fake invoices before catching the scheme.
The term also covers invoices altered to inflate amounts or redirect payments to different accounts.
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- cooked booksFraudulently altered financial records
- billingCharging for services rendered
- forgedMade by smithing, or faked
counterfeit · embezzlement · phishing · receipts · falsified · shell company · kickbacks · accounts payable · accounts receivable · internal controls · audit · red flags · doctored · fabricated · creative accounting · money laundering · overbilling · bookkeeping
- fraudscam, fraud, swindle, con, deceive
- cyberscamsphishing, scam emails, online scams, scams, email spoofing
- embezzlementpeculation, defalcation, misuse of funds, misappropriation, siphoning
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- tax crimestax fraud, tax evasion, undeclared income, unreported income, hidden income
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes