The payment has already gone
The only playbook here where the first hour is about money rather than evidence. Recall has a window measured in hours and it closes whether or not your investigation is finished, so the two run in parallel from the first minute.
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Call your bank and say the words fraudulent payment
by 15 minexpiresBy phone, not email, and now. Recall depends on the receiving bank freezing the funds before they are moved on, which is a race. Note the time of the call and who you spoke to.
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Report it to law enforcement while the trail is warm
by 30 minIn the United States this is IC3, and the report is what allows the Financial Fraud Kill Chain to be invoked on qualifying international wires. Elsewhere use the national fraud reporting route. This is not paperwork for later; it is part of the recall mechanism.