[conspire] Fraudulent e-mail addresses (was: ...Straffic data breach)

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> In the case you cited, the victim is getting excused rather too easily
> for extremely carelessness.  

Citing lead pull-quotation from the _People_ magazine article:

  "There was no reason to be suspicious as I invest in a lot of real
   estate", Barbara Corcoran tells PEOPLE.

Non-sequitur -- and here we have someone who refuses to learn from an
expensive mistake.  Detailed excerpt:

  "I lost the $388,700 as a result of a fake email chain sent to my
  company," Corcoran says. "It was an invoice supposedly sent by my
  assistant to my bookkeeper approving the payment for a real estate
  renovation. There was no reason to be suspicious as I invest in a lot of
  real estate."  The bookkeeper continued to communicate with whom 
  she thought was Corcoran’s assistant and went ahead with the wire 
  payment on Tuesday.

Er...  Barbara Corcoran had signing authority without co-signing to 
send out 1/2 million dollar _wire payments_?  Wire payments, which 
are infamous worldwide as an instrument for financial fraud because,
once money is sent, you're basically never going to get it back?

Normally, bookkeepers in business need higher-ups' signoff on anything
bigger than about a ream of paper and a box of paperclips at Office
Depot.

$388,700 down the tubes, and Ms. Corcoran apparently learned nothing.
Wow.