A fake vendor-onboarding scam asks a new supplier or contractor to pay an upfront fee for registration, training, or equipment before any real work or payment begins.
Set spending limits on a shared company wallet with a multisig threshold for large transfers and a daily allowance for routine spending that bypasses the full approval chain.
Vet a new client before a large first payment by verifying their legal identity, checking payment history, and confirming funds match the deal before you deliver.
A fake proof-of-funds letter looks like a real bank letter but can't be verified when you call the bank directly — the one check that catches nearly every forgery.
Crypto scams fall into four families by what is taken: money you send, your keys or approval, your goods, or your address. One check stops each.
Often only in part: you need a social engineering or fraudulent instruction coverage part, and it usually carries a low sublimit and verification conditions.
Put a control on each of the four gates every payment passes: who asked, who is being paid, who approved and how it was sent. The framework, with costs.
A token approval is a standing permission for a contract to move one token from your wallet. How to read one, limit it, review it and revoke it.
Social engineering in payment fraud is deceiving a person into making or approving a payment. Process controls stop it; training alone does not.
Deepfake voice calls are now the fastest-growing vector for authorised payment fraud. This article breaks down the full attack chain and what settlement professionals need to know.
A step-by-step breakdown of how fraudulent invoices infiltrate accounts-payable workflows, why the standard defences keep failing, and how preset onchain routing removes the bank-detail variable that fraudsters depend on.
A precise, step-by-step breakdown of how attackers silently intercept business email threads and redirect wire payments — and why onchain routing removes the exploitable surface entirely.
When a payment is final the moment it settles, the entire logic of fraud changes. Here is what settlement professionals need to understand about finality, exposure, and onchain routing.
A practical walkthrough of how recipients in multi-party deals can verify, with mathematical certainty, that they received precisely the amount agreed — and why onchain routing changes everything about that confirmation.
A deep look at how cryptographic signatures embedded in onchain payment routing turn each recipient's pre-approved share into tamper-proof, legally legible evidence of consent.
Address-poisoning attacks trick payers into sending funds to lookalike wallets by corrupting transaction history — here is exactly how the attack works and how professionals can guard against it.
A practical guide for settlement professionals and treasury teams on designing, enforcing, and sustaining dual-approval controls for high-value payments — and how onchain routing gives those controls real teeth.
A practical guide for settlement agents, brokers, escrow officers, and deal professionals on how to verify a counterparty's history and reduce risk before committing to a large transaction.
Business email compromise costs billions every year by turning payment instructions into attack surfaces. This article explains exactly how that happens and how onchain routing removes the vulnerability.
A practical guide for settlement professionals on hardening the specific device used to receive and route large onchain payments, from hardware to authentication to network discipline.
A practical guide for settlement professionals and B2B buyers on structuring deposits so they cannot be lost to a seller who takes payment and fails to perform.
A detailed guide for settlement professionals on how rushed-closing pressure tactics work, why they are so effective, and how to build a process that resists them.
When a deal payment goes to the wrong account, the first sixty minutes determine whether funds can be recovered. This guide walks settlement professionals through exactly what to do.
A practical guide for settlement professionals on when a small test payment genuinely reduces risk before a large transaction, and when it creates a false sense of security.
A practical guide for settlement professionals on building a recipient-confirmation step into onchain deal flows so that payment routing only proceeds once every destination is verified.
A practical field guide to identifying spoofed domains inside payment requests, written for settlement professionals, closing attorneys, brokers, and OTC desks who handle large multi-party transactions.
A practical guide for settlement agents, brokers, escrow officers, and title companies on building a bulletproof payment evidence record — and how onchain routing makes that record unambiguous from the first block.
A practical, professional guide to verifying Ethereum wallet addresses before any onchain payment — covering clipboard hijacking, address poisoning, checksums, and multi-party settlement workflows.
A high-value private sale where the seller transferred the asset before payment confirmed — and the payment never came. The sequence, the stakes, the outcome.
How to protect the privacy and security of a large payment, what traditional rails expose, and how to settle safely and discreetly.
How to confirm funds truly settled before handing over goods or releasing a deal, and how to make verification the default step.
Why irreversible settlement is a security feature, how it removes reversal and dispute risk, and why it favors the recipient.
A forensic reconstruction of a business email compromise that redirected a large deal payment, and the moment recovery became impossible.
The universal warning signs across payment scams, the pressure and urgency tactics, and how to slow down and verify before paying.
What counterparty risk is in a high-value transaction, where it hides, and how to structure the payout so neither side can default.
An illustrative case study of a high-value transaction unravelled by a single point of misplaced trust, and how verification would have stopped it.
A complete guide to securing a large transaction against fraud — the common attacks on big payments and how to structure a deal safely.
A practical security playbook for a large deal from first contact to final settlement, folding every safeguard into one workflow.
How BEC attackers insert themselves into a deal to redirect funds, the exact playbook they use, and how to shut it down.
How an onchain record provides permanent, tamper-proof evidence a payment occurred, and how to use it to resolve any dispute.
How to take a deposit that can't be pulled back later, why reversible deposits are risky, and how final settlement protects the recipient.
How business email compromise and spoofed instructions divert closing funds, the warning signs, and how to make diversion impossible.
What to do immediately after spotting a fraud attempt, how to contain it, and how to harden the deal so it can't happen again.
What a chargeback is, why onchain payments can't be reversed after settlement, and why that protects a seller from payment reversal fraud.
How to keep a payment safe when a middle party handles part of it, where the risk sits, and how to structure it so nothing leaks.
The red flags of a payment scam in a big deal, the pressure tactics fraudsters use, and how to slow down and settle safely.
How fraudsters fake proof of payment to trigger early release, why screenshots and emails prove nothing, and how to confirm real receipt.