• Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Last year, a finance officer at a Singaporean multinational paid out nearly $500,000 to scammers during what he believed was a video call with company leadership.

    My bet is that that is just his very plausible cover story. He’s the one that got the money.

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      21 hours ago

      Similar thing happened to a Hong Kong company. It’s likely these are just tech illiterate people who were unfortunately duped.

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    21 hours ago

    It would be better if this didn’t happen at all, but I’d rather see headlines like this than some retiree getting scammed out of their life savings.