On 08/12/2020 21:35, Ángel via mailop wrote:
By the way, how did the "buy amazon and google vouchers" work? That is
a new one for me. I am used to CEO fraud wanting to transfer a big
amount from the company account, not having the employees buying (with
their own money?) amazon vouchers.
pretty much like Jason said.
email `please give me your mobile number, its urgent`. Message via
whatsapp, also with the senders name set.
And then email a list of the voucher codes back.
I'm on a conference call, too busy, please can you go to Tescos
(supermaket) and buy some vouchers.
They used their own money.
If they had even told their co-worker they were going out of the office,
then they would have stopped it. 2 people fell for the same scam,
they sit in the same office about 4m away from each other with nobody in
between. If they had even mentioned to each other ......
As a company, we never ask anybody to spend personal money, so bizarre
they fell for it.
One of the reasons they said thought it was genuine was because our
actual real bank keeps blocking company debit cards for fraud checks on
genuine transactions. So once every 2 weeks somebody will ask somebody
else to use their company card to buy something for them. These staff
too junior to have their own cards.
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Tim Bray
Huddersfield, GB
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