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I just received a bill for some SEO that I never ordered. I explained to my mother that it was a common scam, then pitched it into the recycling bin. If my co
by MichaelCrawford 12y ago
I just received a bill for some SEO that I never ordered. I explained to my mother that it was a common scam, then pitched it into the recycling bin.
If my company were larger than just myself, that bill would have gone to Accounts Payable, with a good chance that it would get paid. Accounts Payable staff at big companies don't have the headspace to chase down whether someone really ordered $85.00 worth of SEO service; such a small amount would not require managerial signoff.
- DanBC 12y agoI worked for a company that bought about £100,000 of electronic components (plus other stuff) per month. They knew where every single item was - down to the paperclips. I'm kind of surprised to hear that tech companies might not know where their money is going, especially when it's $85. See also "Cuckoos Egg" where a few cents difference in billing leads to uncovering hackers intruding on the network.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI expect your former employer was quite successful. Many aren't. My full name is Michael David Crawford. I had a classmate in high school named Michael Dwayne Crawford who often skipped out of school. High school truancy before the age of sixteen is a criminal offense in California. Whenever Mike Dwayne would skip out, the police department's truant office would call my father at work, who then had to take leave from his important work of fighting the cold war then ride his motorcycle twenty miles - sometimes in the driving rain - then visit the principal, all to say "This is not my son". This because the school's MIS system only recorded our middle initials.