diff --git a/contrib/verifybinaries/README.md b/contrib/verifybinaries/README.md
index 8970f3daa4..d43a60ca0f 100644
--- a/contrib/verifybinaries/README.md
+++ b/contrib/verifybinaries/README.md
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ Usage:
 ```sh
 ./verify.sh bitcoin-core-0.11.2
 ./verify.sh bitcoin-core-0.12.0
+./verify.sh bitcoin-core-0.13.0-rc3
 ```
diff --git a/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh b/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
index 657c3bd33c..40759c36bc 100755
--- a/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
+++ b/contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ function clean_up {
    done
 }
 
-WORKINGDIR="/tmp/bitcoin"
+WORKINGDIR="/tmp/bitcoin_verify_binaries"
 TMPFILE="hashes.tmp"
 
 SIGNATUREFILENAME="SHA256SUMS.asc"
-RCSUBDIR="test/"
+RCSUBDIR="test"
 BASEDIR="https://bitcoin.org/bin/"
 VERSIONPREFIX="bitcoin-core-"
 RCVERSIONSTRING="rc"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    #  and simultaneously add RCSUBDIR to BASEDIR, where we will look for SIGNATUREFILENAME
    if [[ $VERSION == *"$RCVERSIONSTRING"* ]]; then
       BASEDIR="$BASEDIR${VERSION/%-$RCVERSIONSTRING*}/"
-      BASEDIR="$BASEDIR$RCSUBDIR"
+      BASEDIR="$BASEDIR$RCSUBDIR.$RCVERSIONSTRING${VERSION: -1}/"
    else
       BASEDIR="$BASEDIR$VERSION/"
    fi
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ fi
 FILES=$(awk '{print $2}' "$TMPFILE")
 
 #and download these one by one
-for file in in $FILES
+for file in $FILES
 do
    wget --quiet -N "$BASEDIR$file"
 done