I realized today that I was the victim of a CEO phishing scam. I work in the accounting department at my small company, and who I thought was the CEO emailed me yesterday asking me to wire funds. I wire funds for him occasionally, so this was not uncommon. We went back and forth emailing, and the funds were wired. Today he asked me to wire more funds to a different account and I did. I was telling the CFO about this today, and he began to get a little suspicious. When I double clicked my boss' name in Outlook, I realized it wasn't his email address and that these were fraudulent. I contacted our bank and both banks where the money was transferred, but the money was already withdrawn. Is there any way I can find out who these fraudsters are? I filed a police report, and I think I'll file a IC3 report. I've done a lot of research on this because it's stressing me out to the max, and most cases involve wiring funds to a foreign country. I wired funds domestically (USA). I was given the name of a person living in a small town for one wire, and a business for another. Another thing is that the person I wired to yesterday's actually does exist (I found one person on google/FB/ and LinkedIn with his name in the USA, and he is located in the small city where I sent funds). I'm assuming someone stole his identity. Can anyone offer advice?
Submitted June 21, 2017 at 02:33AM by fooston http://ift.tt/2szhvuN
