April 28, 2024

Email scam – beware

Read this – it’s important.

Received an email supposedly from Mike O’Brien (President) saying

Kevin, Are you free at the moment?

Regards
Mike

I reply How can I help?

He replies

I am tied up right now, Can you purchase 8 iTunes gift cards – $100 each, I would reimburse you when am through later today, Let me know if you can purchase them now with your personal credit.

Regards
Mike

The alarm bells that had been ringing in the distance from email one now got a whole lot louder

I reply

OK, And what do I do with them when I physically have them in my my hand?

He replies

Scratch and send me the back codes when you pick them up.

Regards
Mike

Yeah…right!. So the guy gets $800 of cash on a scam.

It is possible he has just picked up the email address from the Executive Page on the website and is sending emails to one person supposedly from another on that page.

All the emails stated “Sent from my IPhone” so I initially thought that maybe someone had stolen Mike’s phone but a tele conversion indicated that’s not the case.

BEWARE

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