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The accounting guy at an office I've worked for once got a spoofed email from the CEO asking for bank account info to initiate a wire transfer. Thankfully, the
by tvanantwerp 10y ago
The accounting guy at an office I've worked for once got a spoofed email from the CEO asking for bank account info to initiate a wire transfer. Thankfully, the first thing he did was bring it to me to verify authenticity. "This doesn't sound like [our CEO]", he said. "It's not rude enough."
- eli 10y agoWe've gotten them too. I think we would have caught it regardless but we've always had the bank require two officers to sign off on any transfers anyway. Seems like the hassle is definitely worth it compared to losing millions of dollars.
- mulletbum 10y agoWe get this daily. Another admin and myself tend to play around with them and waste their time. They do a very good job of spoofing us, buying domains very close to ours, etc.
- snovv_crash 10y agoThis has happened at two companies I worked at, that were caught at least. The first was "I thought he already booked his hotel" and the second was "The CEO wouldn't be writing in this [local] language, he'd probably be using English".