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title: "Call-back verification"
description: "Call-back verification — Confirming a new or changed vendor bank detail by phoning a number already on file, not one in the request, before any payment goes to it. The control that defeats most business email compromise."
canonical: "https://lopifi.com/glossary/call-back-verification"
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# Call-back verification

> Call-back verification — Confirming a new or changed vendor bank detail by phoning a number already on file, not one in the request, before any payment goes to it. The control that defeats most business email compromise.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/call-back-verification
Part of: Lopifi — Planned: US GAAP books on autopilot, checked by a CPA (https://lopifi.com)

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**What is call-back verification?** In accounting, call-back verification means confirming a new or changed vendor bank detail by phoning a number already on file, not one in the request, before any payment goes to it. The control that defeats most business email compromise.

## Words this system refuses for it

- email confirmation
- reply to sender

- **Category:** Controls
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/lexicon)
- **Related:** business-email-compromise, vendor