Fake Executive Profiles & Fraudulent Payment Requests: How Finance Teams Can Spot & Stop Them

Your CFO, finance leader, or executive’s public identity must now be part of your payment-control environment. Fraudsters and impersonators can create a convincing executive or vendor profile, borrow real company content, establish credibility on social media or other messaging channels, and then manufacture an urgent reason to change where money goes. Payment protection must begin before a request enters the standard AP and/or treasury lifecycle.

In this session, internationally renowned digital finance leader David Birch hosts Social Engineering Defense (SED) company Doppel’s Field CTO Dylan DeAnda, and Harry Channing from Ramp, to show how finance leaders, controllers, treasury, and AP teams can turn executive protection into a stronger finance-control practice, by:

• Spotting fake profiles before they reach finance.
• Connecting external impersonation signals to internal risk decisions.
• Catching payment requests built on false authority.
• Verifying vendor and bank-detail changes independently.
• Stopping urgent exceptions from bypassing controls.