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guys, one of our admins got one of those scam emails ("this is your CIO. I need you to buy $200 in google play gift cards and send to me urgently"

Posted by amanda jeans (aka amanda) May 13 '21, 11:57

and fell for it.

just a dumb mistake except she used her corp card to pay for the gift cards and then

reported the transactions as fraudulent ("someone used my card without my permission") to risk rather than just saying what happened.

this is such a mess.

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I fell into a Youtube rabbit hole of phone and text scams recently and came away feeling that whoever falls for these things kind of has it coming. - Cuzzin Todd May 13, 12:33 2
- They are literally targeting recent widows, who never had to deal with bill paying, it doesn't matter how many millions of phone calls/emails - zeitgeist May 13, 12:48
- The stories I hear of who falls for it is mostly confused old people, and immigrants for whom this would be plausible in their home country. -- nm - Reagen May 13, 12:34
maybe your CIO really needed Google play gift cards and now THEY just won't fess up... -- nm - Beaker May 13, 12:01
*facepalm* -- nm - budice May 13, 11:59
oof. We had someone here do the same years ago but just fessed up to it. -- nm - oblique May 13, 11:58 6
- I mean, there's no way she keeps her job. -- nm - amanda jeans May 13, 11:59 5
  - I have sympathy for people but lying about financial stuff is a big big no no -- nm - oblique May 13, 12:01 1
    - No kidding. Every time I get a bit worried I won't be rehired, I think, naw... absenteeism is way better than money stuff. -- nm - IAmQale May 13, 12:09
  - and maybe she ...shouldn't.....?? - Pippy May 13, 12:01 2
    - Over $200 though? -- nm - Max May 13, 13:02
    - This. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 13, 12:31

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guys, one of our admins got one of those scam emails ("this is your CIO. I need you to buy $200 in google play gift cards and send to me urgently"

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