Need help - Gift Card Fraud

pulliptears

soolin said:

pulliptears said:

Something similar happened to my husband recently, when they spoofed his work email and sent a similar message to his team saying he needed £1000 in google play vouchers  asap for a meeting.  90% of staff realised something was amiss but 10% would have gone and purchased them had he not managed to send out an email telling them not to do it.

Frighteningly common in the last few months I believe.  Dont beat yourself up too much over it.

I think it Almost as frightening that people are apparently working for companies where it doesn’t seem at all odd for the CEO to ask them to do this. Do people seriously work for companies where they would consider this as normal behaviour? 

I think certainly in DH's firm they took the impression that the order came down the line, so from his bosses and passed on to employees.  I was equally amazed that anyone took it even slightly seriously given the business has no need whatsoever for this kind of thing, it's more construction side.

I guess some people do assume it's come from above and don't question it.