$3.05B
Business Email Compromise losses reported to FBI IC3 in 2025
[ for accounting firms ]
Your firm's name is valuable. Make sure no one else can send from it.
Inbox Vital checks whether your accounting, bookkeeping, or tax firm's email setup makes it easier for impostors to send as your firm, then keeps watching for changes that could put client trust at risk.
191,561
phishing and spoofing complaints reported to FBI IC3 in 2025
IRS warning
Tax pros are targets for fake clients, EFIN requests, and cloned messages
These are broader FBI and IRS risk signals, not Inbox Vital customer data. They show why trusted business email is worth checking before a client has to question it.
[ why it matters ]
Accounting firms run on client trust.
An impostor does not need your whole system to be broken. They only need a believable message at the right moment: tax files, payment details, payroll notes, portal links, or an invoice that looks routine.
Clients expect messages from your firm to be real.
You handle payroll, tax, payment, and financial documents.
Important email often lands during deadline windows.
Your email setup depends on several tools that can change over time.
[ spoofing in plain english ]
Spoofing is when someone sends an email that appears to come from your firm, even though you did not send it.
The protection is not magic. Inboxes look for a few signals that answer simple questions. Inbox Vital checks those signals and explains the weak spots without making you read record syntax.
SPF
Who is allowed to send?
This check lists the services that are allowed to send mail for your domain.
DKIM
Was the message signed?
This check helps inboxes confirm that a message came from an approved sender.
DMARC
What should inboxes do?
This policy tells inboxes what to do when a message pretends to be from you but fails the checks.
[ how we help ]
See the exposure, then keep it watched.
Inbox Vital turns the technical checks into a short readout: what is healthy, what is risky, and what needs to change. You can hand the fix to the person who manages your domain and move on.
Scan my firm's domain- Find missing or weak sender protection.
- Flag policies that only watch suspicious mail instead of asking inboxes to block it.
- Show plain-English fixes you can hand to your IT provider, domain host, or email administrator.
- Keep watching so a future tool change does not quietly reopen the issue.
[ real moments ]
The risky message rarely looks dramatic.
The problem usually looks ordinary enough to pass through a busy day. That is why the domain layer is worth checking before clients are forced to make a judgment call.
Fake client documents
A message looks like a new client sending tax files, but the link or attachment is built to steal information.
Scan. Explain. Monitor.
Payment detail change
A client receives a message that appears to come from your firm asking them to pay a fake invoice or update bank details.
Scan. Explain. Monitor.
Deadline delivery failure
A portal invite, payroll note, invoice, or reminder gets filtered because your email setup broke after a routine change.
Scan. Explain. Monitor.
[ start here ]
Check the part of client trust most firms never look at.
Run a scan, see the weak spots in plain English, and keep your firm's domain watched as your email setup changes.