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Ceo scam is very common. Anytime someone claims to be a ceo verify! CEO is a popular target because they have power and can request weird things of employees who don't know them in normal business.


Yeah, it happened a bunch when I was working for Yahoo… it became a running joke that our CEO was desperate for gift cards


I know. That's why I wondered if some companies had started running training exercises for the phone variants. Personally I have only encountered the email ones previously.




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