Saw an interesting email scam this morning. Our company website lists our accountant and general manager on the webpage, with email addresses, which I know is not a good practice.
Someone obviously harvested the information, because this morning our accountant got an email from (ourgeneralmanager)@aol.com, asking her to keep this confidential, he needed her to handle this personally, and send $135,000 USD to a new vendor we had just signed a deal with.
She asked me about it, and I said it's obviously a scam. One giveaway is the email address, not our company email address.
And I added, the other giveaway is that there is no way that our general manager could write an email that was so well written with no grammar or spelling mistakes.
[This is a guy who writes about the 'physical' year end, instead of fiscal].