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First line of email body: Argh! Sorry this got flagged as external. Stupid IT guys. Anyway, we're about to close a major deal that will make us all rich, pl

First line of email body: Argh! Sorry this got flagged as external. Stupid IT guys. Anyway, we're about to close a major deal that will make us all rich, please wire blah blah blah.

Zikes 11y ago
As with most other aspects of this scam, your suggestion would require a certain lack of critical thinking on the accountant's part: how would the sender know that IT had flagged their email as external before the email was sent and flagged?
- ubernostrum 11y ago
  how would the sender know that IT had flagged their email as external before the email was sent and flagged? The recipients who fall for it don't think about that. They think "oh crap, the big boss needs this done". Critical thinking about and questioning of decisions from higher up is strongly -- one might even say violently -- discouraged in many large organizations.
- mhurron 11y ago
  > require a certain lack of critical thinking on the accountant's part Which is exactly how these scams work in the first place, so it would probably work just fine.
- knodi123 11y ago
  "Sorry, I'm travelling, so all my email has been flagged as external lately." I'm not saying that this doesn't require a lapse in critical thinking ability; just that kind of lapse required is a pretty common everyday one, which non-technical people make all the time.
SilasX 11y ago
Heh, reminds me of how someone I know trolled Second Life: you can name objects after other people and have them talk, which lets you "put words in their mouth". The devs apparently thought that they could fix this by making objects speak with green text, while human players had white text. So what this guy did, was name an object after someone, wait for them to be away from keyboard, and then say: "Hah! Guys, check this out! I made my text green lol. Anyway, [offensive remarks...]"

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First line of email body: Argh! Sorry this got flagged as external. Stupid IT guys. Anyway, we're about to close a major deal that will make us all rich, pl

by knodi123 11y ago

First line of email body: Argh! Sorry this got flagged as external. Stupid IT guys. Anyway, we're about to close a major deal that will make us all rich, please wire blah blah blah.

Zikes 11y ago
As with most other aspects of this scam, your suggestion would require a certain lack of critical thinking on the accountant's part: how would the sender know that IT had flagged their email as external before the email was sent and flagged?
- ubernostrum 11y ago
  how would the sender know that IT had flagged their email as external before the email was sent and flagged? The recipients who fall for it don't think about that. They think "oh crap, the big boss needs this done". Critical thinking about and questioning of decisions from higher up is strongly -- one might even say violently -- discouraged in many large organizations.
- mhurron 11y ago
  > require a certain lack of critical thinking on the accountant's part Which is exactly how these scams work in the first place, so it would probably work just fine.
- knodi123 11y ago
  "Sorry, I'm travelling, so all my email has been flagged as external lately." I'm not saying that this doesn't require a lapse in critical thinking ability; just that kind of lapse required is a pretty common everyday one, which non-technical people make all the time.
SilasX 11y ago
Heh, reminds me of how someone I know trolled Second Life: you can name objects after other people and have them talk, which lets you "put words in their mouth". The devs apparently thought that they could fix this by making objects speak with green text, while human players had white text. So what this guy did, was name an object after someone, wait for them to be away from keyboard, and then say: "Hah! Guys, check this out! I made my text green lol. Anyway, [offensive remarks...]"