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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For <span>Barbara Corcoran, $388,700 is probably pocket change. <br></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Meanwhile, at my house the my wife answered a phone call reportedly from my bank asking about some transaction. She gave me a note with the bank's phone number.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I set the note aside and looked up the bank's phone number. It took some time to to finally get a person. Then I had to answer a set of security questions. Now I was sure I was talking to the bank and they were sure I was who I claimed to be. Then my call was transferred a couple more times and lastly to the bank's fraud department. Yes they had called because I had made some unusual recent transactions. This took half an hour of my time, but I thanked them for being diligent. <br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, February 27, 2020, 5:56:15 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>I wrote:<br><br>> In the case you cited, the victim is getting excused rather too easily<br>> for extremely carelessness. <br><br>Citing lead pull-quotation from the _People_ magazine article:<br><br> "There was no reason to be suspicious as I invest in a lot of real<br> estate", Barbara Corcoran tells PEOPLE.<br><br>Non-sequitur -- and here we have someone who refuses to learn from an<br>expensive mistake. Detailed excerpt:<br><br> "I lost the $388,700 as a result of a fake email chain sent to my<br> company," Corcoran says. "It was an invoice supposedly sent by my<br> assistant to my bookkeeper approving the payment for a real estate<br> renovation. There was no reason to be suspicious as I invest in a lot of<br> real estate." The bookkeeper continued to communicate with whom <br> she thought was Corcoran’s assistant and went ahead with the wire <br> payment on Tuesday.<br><br>Er... Barbara Corcoran had signing authority without co-signing to <br>send out 1/2 million dollar _wire payments_? Wire payments, which <br>are infamous worldwide as an instrument for financial fraud because,<br>once money is sent, you're basically never going to get it back?<br><br>Normally, bookkeepers in business need higher-ups' signoff on anything<br>bigger than about a ream of paper and a box of paperclips at Office<br>Depot.<br><br>$388,700 down the tubes, and Ms. Corcoran apparently learned nothing.<br>Wow.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>conspire mailing list<br><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br></div>
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