On 13 Feb 2019, at 13:46, Kee Hinckley wrote:
The intro text was professionally done. It was specifically targeted for a sociology department. Followup text was sloppier and clearly done on the fly. She managed to alert other students and stopped at least one person who was just about to buy the cards. The scam works very well.
I'm continually surprised how gullible people are. Why would someone's department chair or other boss send email from a meeting asking the person to purchase gift cards? I know there's always a rationale in the email ("I'm stuck in this meeting, I need to pay my baby sitter, won't have time later, etc.") but it's never seemed remotely plausible to me. I know people fall for the tax scams, where they get a call from someone claiming to be from the U.S. tax collection agency (or national police or something) and pressuring the person to buy gift cards to pay a tax lien or warrant for arrest or something, and that has always seemed so wildly ridiculous that I'm always amazed people fall for it.
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