Tuesday, August 6, 2013

SCAM? Strategic Business Communications

I received an email from one of my bosses saying please define the job code for this invoice.


I knew nothing about them so I wrote back and copied Diane. She did some research and then Tiffany found some links that assert their invoices are fraudulent. Diane followed up with some additional research and found:
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/18387135/phony-invoices-sos

Apparently, their business model is to send out fake invoices. Glad the company was so diligent to research. Wow!

6 comments:

  1. We received exactly same invoice today... I mean everything was the same even a penny. Thank you!!!!

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  2. This scam is still active, we received an invoice from Strategic Business Communications but the amount was 3495. I initially thought it was a media vendor we do business with, after a little research and a link, thankfully, to your blog we were able to determine it's a scam. Thanks you! ~dr

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  4. It appears the scam is still active. We just received a paper mail invoice for $3,495.00 addressed to "Accounts Payable" at our office address. We are only a 2-man team, so it was easy to confirm this was not for any service either of us signed up for.

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  5. Still active - just received an invoice today from them. Glad we pay attention.

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  6. Invoice was received by our company in 2020. It took a lot of digging to confirm it is a scam.

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