Cyber Fraud and Digital Payment Crime Prevention

Prepare finance, operations and IT teams to defend against the fraud that now arrives by email and electronic payment. The course covers business email compromise, invoice redirection, card and mobile money fraud, and social engineering targeting South African organisations. Delegates learn detection red flags, verification controls and an incident response plan to limit loss when an attack lands.

What you will be able to do

Recognise common digital fraud schemes including business email compromise and invoice redirection.
Identify red flags in payment instructions, banking detail changes and vendor requests.
Apply verification and authorisation controls that stop fraudulent payments.
Strengthen defences against social engineering and account takeover.
Respond to a suspected fraud to preserve evidence and improve recovery chances.
Build a payment fraud prevention checklist and response plan for the organisation.

Course outline

01The Digital Fraud Landscape
02Business Email Compromise and Invoice Fraud
03Card, EFT and Mobile Money Fraud
04Social Engineering and Account Takeover
05Payment Verification and Authorisation Controls
06Detecting Red Flags Before Money Leaves
07Incident Response, Evidence and Recovery

Who should attend

This course suits finance and accounts payable staff, treasury and payments teams, internal control officers and managers responsible for authorising or processing payments.

Dates, venues and fees

Dates	Venue	Days	Fee
17 to 18 Aug 2026	Lagos	2	US$1,100
24 to 25 Aug 2026	Harare	2	US$1,100
31 Aug to 1 Sep 2026	Kampala	2	US$1,100
7 to 8 Sep 2026	Dar es Salaam	2	US$1,100
14 to 15 Sep 2026	Pretoria	2	R10,000
21 to 22 Sep 2026	Cape Town	2	R10,000
5 to 6 Oct 2026	Online	2	US$900
12 to 13 Oct 2026	Mozambique	2	US$1,100
19 to 20 Oct 2026	Cairo	2	US$1,100
26 to 27 Oct 2026	Accra	2	US$1,100
2 to 3 Nov 2026	Lusaka	2	US$1,100
9 to 10 Nov 2026	Kigali	2	US$1,100
16 to 17 Nov 2026	Nairobi	2	US$1,100
23 to 24 Nov 2026	Durban	2	R10,000
30 Nov to 1 Dec 2026	Johannesburg	2	R10,000
14 to 15 Dec 2026	Mauritius	2	US$1,100
21 to 22 Dec 2026	Dubai	2	US$1,100

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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Training a whole team?

We can run Cyber Fraud and Digital Payment Crime Prevention privately for your team, on your dates and built around your own systems. Group delivery is usually more cost effective from about six delegates.

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