I Can't Believe How Dumb Barbara Corcoran Is To Fall For An Internet Scam
Idiots are everywhere these days.
I saw this news on Thursday but wanted to wait to blog it because I thought, "this has to be fake news." No one, I mean NO one could be so gullible as to fall for an internet scam in this day and age, could they?
Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul, and proclaimed business "shark" in a sea of fish, is officially the dumbest person on the internet. She didn't just get scammed, she got scammed using one of the most obvious phishing schemes around.
You all know the one. The tried and true business email scam. Formerly dubbed as Man-in-the-Email scams, attackers create a fake email address and pose as a CEO or another executive, and targets unsuspecting idiots or new employees to execute outlandish tasks... swiftly.
In this story, the scammer was pretending to be Barbara's assistant and in this instance, the request was for a cool $388k to be wired immediately to Asia. The bogus bill came from an email that closely resembled the assistant's, but it was missing a letter. Ouch. Corcoran’s team didn’t realize something was off about the “from” email until after the money was transferred.
“Someone sends you a bill. It’s paid,” Corcoran told ABC News. “In this one instance, it was not a good strategy.”
Wait, what? This mogul, who is on a TV show because of her business acumen and her finance sense, admitted that she commonly will wire hundreds of thousands of dollars willy nilly if the request comes with an invoice attached? GTFO
Another puzzling nugget to this story is that Barbara was genuinely surprised that after they received the money, the scammer(s) "disappeared".
"I lost the $388,700 as a result of a fake email chain sent to my company," she said. "The scammer disappeared and I'm told that it's a common practice, and I won't be getting the money back."
"I was upset at first, but then remembered it was only money."
iTs OnLY MoNeY???
The craziest part of the story is that she ACTUALLY got her money back.
The millionaire investor said in a statement Monday that she had "already accepted" that she had lost the money and "moved on."
"I really thought it was a goner," she said.
I, for one, am baffled and appalled… so much so that I think she should be removed from her post on the show at once. We can't have village idiots giving strategic business advice. Shark? More like prey.