You know how it is if you received an email from your boss, you are likely to follow instructions?
Well, it has lately come to my attention that scammers are impersonating management leaders and going to respective employees to ask them to send information over.
A friend working in finance said she has received a WA message from a regional management leader in her company.
She was surprised initially because she was wondering how he had gotten her personal number.
But the profile photo was indeed a photo of that particular leader and so she let her guard down and engaged him a little by asking him if he was in town.
Following that, he actually told her...
"I will like to inform you that we had a meeting with the board of directors."
"Decisions have been taken at the level of our subsidiaries"
"I'd like to share a letter concerning you personally."
"Do you have a personal email?"
That was when she got suspicious.
So she started to ignore him. And they actually started to call her.
After she ignored the calls as well, they immediately changed the profile picture.
The next time someone emails you and tells you they are your big boss, best to pause and think before you reply. If they are asking you for anything like a personal email, personal bank account number.. u can be certain it is a scam and they are just looking to use other methods to scam you after.
Impersonating as your boss is just to engage you and gain your trust.
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