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It’s actually the flooring companies fault for not having secure emails. Assuming the email came to you from their usual email account.
dancing james-
Their email was hacked, and I never actually got an email from their real account once - not since December 18th when I first made contact. I was recommended them by a forumenger, found their (legit, it turns out) website, used the contact form to message them... They must have got that first email, deleted it, and started a conversation with me from a false email account they set up. They spent months relaying plans, messages etc back and forth. Quite clever really. All waiting for the day when an invoice was eventually sent, then they slotted a replica one in with their own bank details on.
The flooring guy doesn't seem to get what happened, really.
Sparky
I've just fallen for an invoice scam. Had a flooring company out to do a quote, all good. They emailed the invoice to me and it was intercepted. I got a fake email with a fake invoice, and paid it. Reported it to Monzo and trying to report it to Action Fraud now. I'm never seeing that money again am I?