Be careful to check the payment of your salary at the end of the month: the human resources services will have to redouble their vigilance so as not to make a mistake of the employee.
The end of the month marks a key moment for human resources services: the payment of wages. Impatiently awaited by all employees, this transfer is a central issue in payroll management. When a delay occurs, the consequences can be heavy for employees, who rely on this remuneration to settle their current expenses, invoices or their credit. A failure in the payment process can quickly destabilize their financial situation.
In this context, the HR teams must demonstrate reinforced vigilance. A new form of wage fraud worries professionals in the sector. The Gard gendarmerie recently warned companies in the face of an increasingly widespread scam, which directly aims for employee remuneration.
The process is simple, but formidably effective. Scammers divert the salary by pretending to be the employee. The stratagem is based on identity theft: fraudsters contact the human resources service, by phone or email, and claim to have changed bank details. They then ask that the next pay be paid to a new RIB, fraudulently communicated.
The victims find it too late that their salary was not credited to their usual account, but transferred to a third -party account. This “wage theft” is part of a broader context of evolution of professional practices. The growing appeal to telework and the digitization of administrative processes have facilitated these frauds. Although these digital tools provide time saving, they can also become vulnerability vectors for businesses.
The police therefore recommend that companies be particularly vigilant to any change in bank details, including updating personal information as a change of address or situation. These changes must, ideally, be validated in face -to -face to avoid this type of mishap and fight more effectively against this type of increasingly formidable scams.
