[US] Tried to Scam My Employer

My employer received an email from someone who used my first and last name as well as job title to request them to update the bank information for the next payroll.

My employer can’t update this for me as I’d have to go through the payroll portal to do so.

Turns out it was a fake email. My employer totally fell for it thinking it was me because it didn’t clearly show the email it came from unless you clicked into look. However they kept pushing her to try with different banking info . It was so weird. They were literally trying to take my paycheck!!

Never heard of this scam just wanted to report it to warn everyone.

What’s weird is that we are such a small company with less than 10 employees I wonder how we even got on their radar.