A new wire fraud scam targets your direct deposit info and sends your paycheck to a criminal's account
- Fraudsters are targeting the HR functions of businesses of all types and convincing employees to swap out your direct deposit banking information to an offshore account.
- One nonprofit in Kansas City describes several attempts per month, involving scammers trying to convince payroll personnel to change information about where to send employee pay.
- The IRS has warned of an uptick in a wide range of fraud attempts involving payroll information.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/new-wire-fraud-scam-targets-your-direct-deposit-info-paycheck.html