GREENSBORO, N.C. — Your boss may have asked you to come in early, stay late, maybe even work on a project over the weekend, but what do you do when your boss asks you to run an errand for them?
“I got a text message from a number I didn’t know, but I also don’t have my new boss’s number in my cell. He asked for Google cards for $100 each, take them out of the envelope, scratch them carefully, and send the images revealing the codes,” said Irena Derak.
The boss’s name was spelled correctly. Her name was spelled correctly. So, she did what the boss asked. She went to a nearby Staples and bought the gift cards and scratched off the backs, and sent the pictures to the person she thought was her boss. When she got back to her desk, she followed up with her boss in a group chat and learned she had been duped…