I just read in today\u2019s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that there is a new scam that has affected the Supervalu grocery chain.<\/p>\n
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Apparently, someone pretended to be an employee of a couple of its suppliers and asked it to redirect its payments to new bank accounts. Of course, the bank accounts belonged to the scammer(s) and not the real suppliers.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s some new stuff for purchasing professionals to address in their contracts, policies, and procedures, preferably sooner rather than later:<\/p>\n
1. How suppliers are required to notify your company of changes to remittance instructions<\/p>\n
2. Who verifies and\/or authorizes changes to remittance information in your system<\/p>\n
3. How access to changes to remittance information will be restricted<\/p>\n
4. What the clerk making remittance information changes has to have in order to process changes<\/p>\n
When I think of the companies I worked for and how easy it would have been to fall prey to this time of scam, I find it pretty scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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