This morning I received an email from someone who was impersonating the CEO of the company I work for.
I was asked to purchase gift cards ($500 over various cards) that was intended for business clients. It was an odd request but given the circumstances it wouldn’t be implausible for him to have given me such a task. So I did it, with no questions asked.
Looking back at it now it was clearly a fake email account with very suspicious instructions, especially to have me selected as the person to do so. I realized all of this way too late and have given this person exactly what he asked for.
I have already notified my company, my boss, my CEO, and IT support. This has apparantly been a known issue and multiple people from my company have been victims in all of this.
That being said, I fell for it. I coughed up over $1000 in this stupid stupid scam. Is there any way to reclaim any of this money? About $800 was charged to my debit and $200 was charged to a credit card. Can I dispute the credit charges? What about my debit card..am I out $800?
What can I do?
Submitted January 29, 2019 at 11:58AM by bysong13 http://bit.ly/2RpKa0b
