by sugialvi
Sun Nov 15, 2015 3:03 pm
I am a Construction machinery dealer. Sell within USA and all over the world. Following case happened to me twice so I thought I will share with international sellers who write their Bank info on their Pro forma invoice.
I emailed a proforma invoice more than $50,000 to my buyer overseas. He received my invoke with Altered bank Info. I assume the buyer's email address was hacked and the hacker received my invoice instead of the actual buyer. It was a PDF invoice so he removed my bank info from the invoice and wrote his own instead. rest of the invoice was left as real and untouched. in both the circumstances one with in USA and second overseas, my customers were smart enough to verify the bank account with me on phone. Had they sent the money without verification , the money would land in someone else's account. To take care of this I stopped writing my bank account in the Proforma invoice and give out the bank account when my customer calls me on phone.
I emailed a proforma invoice more than $50,000 to my buyer overseas. He received my invoke with Altered bank Info. I assume the buyer's email address was hacked and the hacker received my invoice instead of the actual buyer. It was a PDF invoice so he removed my bank info from the invoice and wrote his own instead. rest of the invoice was left as real and untouched. in both the circumstances one with in USA and second overseas, my customers were smart enough to verify the bank account with me on phone. Had they sent the money without verification , the money would land in someone else's account. To take care of this I stopped writing my bank account in the Proforma invoice and give out the bank account when my customer calls me on phone.
