Prevention of fraudulent invoices
Dear Bury Metropolitan Borough Council,
I am making a request under the FOI Act.
What steps do you employ to prevent the payment of fraudulent invoices that have been raised in the name of existing suppliers (i.e. where a fraudster raises an invoice in the name of a company that is already a supplier but with the fraudster’s own bank details)?
I await your response within 20 working days.
Yours faithfully,
Helen McNally
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Dear Ms McNally
Thank you for your recent request for information.
If a supplier has changed bank details & not previously notified us we
would be advised by BACS when the payment was made, either being given the
correct bank details to update in our system and by rejection of the BACS
payment at which time we would contact the supplier.
In instances where a supplier notifies us of a change of bank details we
will verify this with them before making the change.
Regards
Andrew Baldwin CPFA
Head of Financial Management
Resources and Regulation
Tel. 0161 253 5034
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Sent: 07 December 2017 13:00
To: CEX-FOI Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information Request Resources and Regulation
Customer Contact Team
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Call details (Crm number): 2905614 Recorded: 07/12/2017 12:59:29
Name/Business: Helen McNally
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Freedom of Information Request for Resources and Regulations
Teams selected: Financial Management
What steps do you employ to prevent the payment of fraudulent invoices
that have been raised in the name of existing suppliers (i.e. where a
fraudster raises an invoice in the name of a company that is already a
supplier but with the fraudster's own bank details)?
I await your response within 20 working days.
The request has been sent to the following departments: Resources and
Regulation
If you have any further questions about this issue please ring 5353, or
Email [5][Bury Council request email] quoting the CRM reference
number.
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Yours faithfully
Customer Contact Team
Bury Council
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