New Frauds You May Have Missed – Learn How to Protect Your Company, Your Vendor and Yourself

For Accounts Payable Professionals, the past couple of years have most likely been filled with new workplace environments, new automation projects and above-and-beyond efforts from AP teams to help their companies adapt to the challenges of today. Unfortunately, the same can be said for fraudsters.  Fraudsters have taken advantage of the rush to digital payments, remote work, and other shifts seen in the workplace with new evolving scams designed to divert your vendor’s payments or compromise your professional activities.  Watch this webinar to learn what fraudsters have been up to with new scams in email security, travel, and professional networking – and what you can do to combat them. 

What You Will Learn: 

• New Scam Alerts that compromises Accounts Payable Professionals when traveling, and networking for business
• New Scam Alerts that make it harder to detect fraudulent vendor bank change requests
• For each New Scam Alert presented, a process, tool, or resource to combat it
• Resources where you can sign up for New Scam Alerts to keep you up to date on frauds

Debra Richardson
AP Speaker, Consultant, & Trainer at Debra Richardson, LLC

Debra is an Accounts Payable speaker, consultant, and trainer with over 20 years of experience in AP, AR, general ledger, and financial reporting for Fortune 500 companies including Verizon, General Motors, and Aramark. For ten years, Debra has focused on Global Vendor Maintenance, and implemented a vendor self-registration portal for 140k+ global vendors across five ERPs. In her consultancy, she focuses on authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraud in the vendor master file. For two years, she was President of the Oklahoma Central Region IOFM Chapter. Debra now focuses on helping accounts payable teams protect the vendor master file from fraud. She has a weekly blog and hosts a weekly podcast: “Putting the AP in hAPpy”.

Josh Barrett
Director, IOFM

Josh Barrett joined the Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM) in 2017 has served as the organization’s executive director since 2020. His is responsible for management of IOFM’s Membership and Certification, its virtual and in-person events, and its demand generation offerings.

Josh is committed to ensuring that IOFM is the premier provider of training and education for financial operations professionals, working closely with a team of content developers, industry leaders and subject matter experts.

Prior to joining IOFM, Josh spent 20 years working in marketing and advertising with companies including L.L.Bean, Globe Manufacturing, the Maine Office of Tourism and Bentley University.