It was just an email and it looked exactly like all the other emails the boss had sent. The unsuspecting admin did not know the email was
"spoofed", meaning it only appeared to come from the boss…
Little did she know that his email was fake and that everything she was about to share was going to end up with hackers who were in another country.
As you might've guessed…
The hacker's email directed the admin to reply with some of the most important banking information.
Then, they used the info to cleanly steal $439,000.
And while nobody was pointing the finger or, said it out loud…
The admin was responsible.
How was she supposed to know the email was spoofed— a fraud?
Not to mention she was buried; with dozens of other "pressing" tasks from Finances to HR and even IT.