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Can’t believe how confident must be. Harvard headhunted her without even applying for the job? She must be so cocky to fall for it.
by vinni2 6y ago
Can’t believe how confident must be. Harvard headhunted her without even applying for the job? She must be so cocky to fall for it.
- feral 6y agoThat is a bad sort of victim blaming. I hope you wouldn't apply that logic to victims of other non-online crimes. Anyway, separately, she addresses that in her article, convincingly I thought. Plus she's brave and helping others to write about this (which victim blaming doesn't encourage).
- namanaggarwal 6y agoMy only point is that she is a journalist working for a reputable news agency for 21 years. Her job was to fact check everything. This means that a lot of things she told in the media before should be taken with a pinch of salt.
- minot 6y agoNot just her. All of journalism. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- vinni2 6y agoI would expect my aunt who thinks everything on WhatsApp is true to fall for it. She is a professional journalist with lots of experience as a fact checker. I am sorry she fell for it but someone with her education level and awareness I expected more.
- cowpig 6y agoWhat a strange reaction to this story.
- hfkldjsjfkdj 6y agoCan't anyone say anything negative even if it makes sense?
- ryder9 6y agoah yes the "my opinion is immune to criticism" response
- nip180 6y agoI had a similar thought: I would be more and more suspicious the longer I didn’t get an email from an @harvard.edu email.
- FreakyT 6y agoThe article states that all the emails appeared to be from official Harvard email addresses. At some universities, it’s possible to create email aliases at your .edu domain, so it’s possible that the scammer had access to one or more convincing email addresses.
- nip180 6y agoThat greatly increases the level of sophistication. The article doesn’t say that the emails received were “@harvard.edu” only that they appeared to be valid Harvard ids. That means she made a judgement call that the email were legitimate, but it doesn’t give very many technical details on what she judged that call on.
- InitialLastName 6y agoThis makes me assume that the bits she's most embarrassed about (a fact-checker should be able to find out what the valid Harvard email domains are) are the one she glossed over.
- nip180 6y agoI don’t think this article was written for a technical audience so it’s not surprising that it’s light on technical details.
- bob33212 6y agoMost phishing scams required the target to have an emotional reaction that clouds their judgement. For example, if you get an email saying that your credit card was charged in another state, if you are worried about your finances you may panic and click on the button to login and deny the charges.
- rm445 6y ago> I was invited to speak at an event (...) One of the apparent organisers of this event contacted me separately to say there was a vacancy for a teaching position and would I be interested (...) I submitted my CV (...) A few weeks later I was "interviewed" This sounds exactly like the kind of job opportunity that's meant to come about by networking, getting your name out there, public speaking and so on. We are often told that this is how the best jobs are found.
- ghaff 6y agoYes, up to that point it all seems very plausible whatever the victim-blamers on this thread think. Down the road, should alarm bells have started going off? Probably. But especially in the context of COVID-19, it's not hard to imagine those bells being suppressed in the excitement of a new opportunity etc.