The $40k scam: are you prepared?

This can happen to you. Even if you don’t run a business.

Someone emails you and says that you have an invoice that you haven’t paid. The email looks real, just like what happened to Kim and her company.

While this $39,500 invoice was never paid, what if you got the email and it said that you only owed a few hundred?

This cautionary tale is one that I saw in her newsletter and I’ve been thinking about how we can cover this.

Giving examples like this gives you the opportunity to learn and when we ask questions, its to allow you to think about what’s actually happening.

It’s funny that we talk about these types of things on TSB. When I started the technology podcast, I would read things in newsletters like this one. Then, within some period of time, I’d get an email about it.

This is no joke, the email matched exactly what I had previously read. Maybe there was some variation, but for all intense of purpose, it was similar in most ways.

I’ve spoken to Amber by text and call when I came on the Kim Komando program.

The fact tht I’ve mentioned to check to see whether one would write in one way is the key here. It paid off and the $40k scam was averted.

The $40K fake invoice scam we were too smart to fall for