Debra R Richardson
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You may worry about vendor banking information and preventing fraudulent electronic payments – however, both internal and external fraudsters are after your checks. If you want to make sure you are protecting remittance addresses for your chec
Validating Vendor Banking information is critical to 1) make sure payments are successful; and 2) to validate you are paying your actual vendor and not a cybercriminal. There have been some changes in resources for 2024, so if you want to hear
Most internal fraudsters display at least one of eight (8) red flags that fraud is occurring. Do you know what to look for? Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques,
Now that the new IRS Form W-9 is published, let’s look at a frequently asked question I get – what should you do if the vendor’s legal name and tax id combination is not valid with the IRS? Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichar
In 2023, Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is still a money maker for fraudsters according to the latest report by the FBI. Here is a quick look at the stats compared to 2022 and before the pandemic. Keep Listening. Check out my website www
Finally – the IRS has published the updated version of the Form W-9. Now what? Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to pre
Do you have in your vendor bank account add or update process, that if the bank account ownership validation is successful – you stop right there? That’s no longer appropriate. Why?.... Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichards
Remember that $25.6M successful payment to fraudsters? Of course you do, seems like every media outlet and all the companies you subscribe to (like mine) reported on it too. So how can you combat? Keep Listening. Check out my website www.deb
Get 20 tips to avoid the latest fraud trends of 2023 in 2024. Discover the latest 6 fraud trends of last year and how you can stay updated, avoid and detect fraud in the vendor setup and maintenance process. Keep Listening. Check out my web
Watchlists, sanction lists, exclusion lists, etc – here are three reasons why you may not be compliant with regulatory requirements. Plus, how you can get recommendations at no extra charge or how you can “diy” and build your own watchlist com
How hard is it for you to get approved $500 of training or software to help you do your job better? See what fraudsters get for $500 to defraud you and your company. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need h
To mitigate fraud, many companies are taking steps to avoid potential fraud risks – including verifying banking details via phone. If that happens when you try to confirm your vendor’s bank change, what can you do? Keep Listening. Check out m
It was two years into an AP Sr Manager position when I realized that another group had access to one of my vendor record screens in the vendor master file. Just one. What? Why? Then we fixed it. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debra
Now that it’s 1099 season many of you are reminded of how you just didn’t get around to making sure the information you collect from your vendors is sufficient and valid for tax reporting, nor how you make sure it stays that way. If you want 2
If your vendor had to notify you of a fraudulent payment, you don’t have enough controls. Keep Listening. Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practi
It shouldn’t happen but it always does – vendors don’t have a valid address on file. You don’t want check payments or 1099s to come back, so here are some free reliable sources to find an address that is tied to your vendor. Keep Listening. Ch
#Scamolidays are still going on, but we’re in the final week of the 4 week focus on specific scams and all content is up and published. Want to know what content is ready for you to stay safe through New Years and into 2024? Keep Listening. C
When you and your team are setting up vendors for ACH or Wire payments – do you know what those bank branch numbers are? Do you know how to validate? And if you know you should validate - do you have links to those resources?Keep Listening. C
From a human behavior perspective, fraudsters depend on our “mental shortcuts” to get us to take action on those phishing emails. Here are three examples and how the other “ishings” come into play – we’re talking about email right? Keep Listeni
There is a school that converted all of their ACH payment vendors to check payments after an ACH fraud occurred. Most likely because they felt that positive pay would protect them against fraud. Maybe, but adding an additional step can go fur
Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping bring good deals for your co-worker Secret Santa gifts and many of those deals have to be shipped. Cue fraudsters. Discover 2 tips to avoid shipping fraud straight from the delivery giant themselves – th
A particular type of check fraud and Ponzi schemes have something in common. We’re talking internal fraud with one example of how employees can perpetrate check fraud and why it can get out of hand….just like a Ponzi scheme. Keep Listening. C
The IRS made a change that will require more of you to file electronically, and guess what you need to file electronically? Yep, a Transmitter Control Code (TCC). But you may need more than one, and if you already have one, it may be deactiva
It’s that time of the year – preparing for 1099 season. That means being proactive to avoid IRS fines that result from filing 1099s with missing tax ids. So here are 3 ways you can find those missing EINs for your reportable vendors before th
Getting ready for tax season now also means being alert for fraudsters posing as the IRS by voice, in letters and notices and in text messages. If you want to hear what the IRS wants you to know about avoiding scams, by knowing what they won’t
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