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Payment & Vendor Fraud Prevention

Catch fraudulent requests before money moves.

Stop payment scams, test realistic vendor and executive impersonation, and train employees to verify requests before approving payments.

Explore fraud protection

Catch fraud inside familiar conversations

Detect executive impersonation, compromised vendor threads, and deceptive payment requests.

Email security

Put realistic financial scams to the test

Combine emails, calls, SMS, and deepfakes to test how employees respond to payment requests.

Phishing simulations

Reinforce payment verification

Use training with deepfakes to help employees practice responding to unusual requests.

Security awareness training
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76%

Of U.S. organizations experienced payment fraud in 2025.

AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey, 2026

74%

Of organizations were affected by business email compromise in 2025.

AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey, 2026

1.7×

Employees fail BEC simulations at a higher rate than credential phishing.

Adaptive platform data

A convincing request needs more than a familiar name.

Attackers can use a vendor’s email thread, a cloned voice, or a deepfake to make a fraudulent payment request feel real. Adaptive connects email protection, simulations, and training so employees can recognize deception.

Detect payment and vendor fraud.

Adaptive Email Security examines who is making a request, how they communicate, and the business context behind the message to identify fraud that may contain no malicious link or attachment.

  • Detect executive and vendor impersonation through identity, behavior, and message analysis
  • Identify suspicious requests for payments, invoice updates, and changes to bank details
  • Catch vendor compromise and thread hijacking inside familiar email conversations
  • Investigate and remove related threats across affected inboxes
Explore fraud protection

Test realistic business requests.

Adaptive Phishing Simulations recreate the people, channels, and business situations employees trust, making financial scams more realistic.

  • Personalize impersonation using employees’ roles and publicly available information
  • Test fraudulent invoices, changed payment instructions, and urgent transfer requests
  • Use cloned executive voices and synthetic videos to test responses to apparent leadership requests
  • Combine email, voice calls, and SMS in multi-step scenarios that reinforce the same fraudulent request
Test realistic payment scams

Build consistent verification habits.

Adaptive Security Awareness Training uses interactive scenarios with deepfake moments to help employees apply verification procedures.

  • Work through scenarios involving payment requests, vendor changes, and executive impersonation
  • Experience how AI-generated messages, cloned voices, and deepfake videos can create false confidence
  • Build company-specific lessons around payment approvals, vendor updates, and verification
  • Assign targeted remediation after simulation failures to reinforce decisions employees missed
Prepare your finance team

Frequently Asked Questions.

Payment and vendor fraud tricks employees into sending money to an attacker. Common tactics include fraudulent invoices, impersonated vendors, and requests to change bank details or bypass normal payment procedures.

Attackers impersonate or compromise a trusted business contact, then use that identity to request a payment or change payment instructions. These messages may contain no malicious attachment or link, making the request itself the threat.

Yes, an attacker who compromises a vendor’s account can send fraudulent instructions from the vendor’s real email address or insert them into an existing conversation. Adaptive analyzes behavior, content, and business context alongside sender identity to identify suspicious requests.

Training teaches employees to recognize unusual requests and confirm changes through established contacts and trusted channels. Company-specific content can reinforce your organization’s procedures for vendor changes and payment approvals.

Yes. Adaptive Email Security can investigate detected fraud and remove related threats across affected inboxes, including emails that have already been delivered.

Protect the decisions that move company money.

See how Adaptive detects suspicious payment requests and prepares employees to recognize, verify, and report financial scams.

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