The Fraud Playbook: Lessons from Law Enforcement for Treasury (Conduit Security)

In this episode, Craig Jeffery and Ryan Castle of Conduit Security examine how sophisticated wire fraud schemes exploit legitimate payment processes. Drawing on real-world cases and Ryan's former FBI experience, they discuss compromised email accounts, altered payment instructions, deepfakes, money mules, and the pressure criminals use to bypass otherwise sound controls. They also explore treasury's role as the superintendent of payments and the incident-response playbook organizations should prepare before a loss occurs. For more from Conduit Security, watch their participation in Strategic Treasurer's Fintech Hotseat Head-2-Head: Compliance. Payment Security Report FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Conduit Security Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Compromised closing payment 05:23 Fraudulent vendor verification 08:23 The criminal fraud playbook 13:00 How money mules move funds 16:58 About Ryan Castle and Conduit Security 18:54 Treasury's exposure and controls 26:12 Superintendent of payments 29:03 Building a defensive playbook 35:43 Incident response and recovery 41:27 Final thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT STRATEGIC TREASURER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Strategic Treasurer is recognized as a top tier consulting firm in the area of treasury and risk management. Corporate clients, banks, and technology vendors all rely on their industry leading advisory services that are backed by a deep awareness of current needs, practices, and budgeting priorities of treasury professionals through Strategic Treasurer's annual industry surveys and decades of treasury experience. Strategic Treasurer utilizes a senior consultant model where every project is managed by senior consultants with actual practitioner experience in corporate and/or banking roles. Download The Strategic Treasurer: A Partnership for Corporate Growth by Craig A. Jeffery in Kindle, or hardcover. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Visit us today at StrategicTreasurer.com. Or join in the discussion at one of our leading LinkedIn groups.