Barbara Corcoran of "Shark Tank" loses $388,000 to e-mail scammer

Here's the story: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sh...000-2020-02-27

Basically someone impersonated her assistant by creating an e-mail address very similar to that assistant, and then e-mailed Corcoran's bookkeeper to pay a supposed German company $388,000.

The scammers also knew that Corcoran had real estate holdings, and justified the request by claiming that she had invested in real estate in Germany. The money was supposedly being wired to an actual German real estate investment firm, but the bookeeper was instructed to send it to Asia (lol). The bookeeper fell for it and shipped the money.

She'll survive, though, because she's supposedly worth $80 million.

Laughably, she claimed she "would have made the same mistake" as the bookkeeper. Unbelievable that it's so easy to trick certain rich idiots to wire you almost $400k.

The IP was based out of China, of course.

score of a lifetime

scamming is a way of life for many chinese

It looks like she got the money back

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...164043327.html

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Originally Posted by jsearles22

It looks like she got the money back

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...164043327.html

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I’m being a nit today about language but who wrote the headline of that article about scammers return money. They didn’t return shit. The bank grabbed it.

you know one of the scams the chinese run.

the government run traffic infractions and things like this. they encourage peeps photographing drivers doing illegal things, then mail them penalties of the infractions that they need to pay.

as a reward the person that caught them gets to share in the money they send in. so all over china there are teams of scammers trying to run u off the road or get you to enter a lane that you shouldn't be in, while scammer car two takes a pic of you doing it.

pretty lucrative gig

Yes I saw this. She is signing a ton of checks could easily see this happening. Glad she got money back if true. Chinese are the new nigereans.

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Originally Posted by FRANKRIZZO

Yes I saw this. She is signing a ton of checks could easily see this happening. Glad she got money back if true. Chinese are the new nigereans.

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The Chinaman is not the issue here Dude. I'm talking about unchecked aggression.

Several years ago the city I live in was scammed for I think it was around 50 or 60k.

Yup, the city government.

I don't remember 100% of the details but basically:

- city government emails were hacked by scammers

- The scammers noticed a few key emails between contractors hired by the city and the city administration for work that was done or being done.

- the scammers impersonated the contractors and city employees via fake email addresses.

-they then used the city email addresses to impersonate & communicate with certain real city employees to send payments for contractor work performed to a specific account.

-this account was obviously the scammers account but by the time thd city government realized their grave error, the scammers disappeared with the loot. If I remember correctly they were overseas somewhere but I'm not sure where.

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Originally Posted by Gordman

Several years ago the city I live in was scammed for I think it was around 50 or 60k.

Yup, the city government.

I don't remember 100% of the details but basically:

- city government emails were hacked by scammers

- The scammers noticed a few key emails between contractors hired by the city and the city administration for work that was done or being done.

- the scammers impersonated the contractors and city employees via fake email addresses.

-they then used the city email addresses to impersonate & communicate with certain real city employees to send payments for contractor work performed to a specific account.

-this account was obviously the scammers account but by the time thd city government realized their grave error, the scammers disappeared with the loot. If I remember correctly they were overseas somewhere but I'm not sure where.

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This happened to the City of Edmonton, Alberta Canada:

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...-agency-375000