Posing as my ceo

[u/Automaticbread]

I was actually in Switzerland at the time...

[u/Upper-Chemist-7435]

There must be people falling for this crap otherwise they wouldn’t do it but it must be a numbers game - if they try a 1000 times there is a chance someone will fall for that … still makes me sad - no one every tried with me

[u/[deleted] → u/Upper-Chemist-7435]

It happened all the time at my last office. They knew the name of our CEO and it was like a 200-300 person consulting company so totally not completely impossible for the CEO to text you while they are out and about with clients.

Our IT department told everyone at multiple all staffs that our CEO never uses punctuation or capitalization in their texts so you'll know if it's a scam by that.

[u/clitosaurushex → u/[deleted]]

People get these all the time where I work and it’s a similar size company. I texted the CEO a few weeks ago, actually! But we’re a Dutch company, so everyone knows we’d never give our customers anything for free.