Comment by buzer
3 days ago
Did you confirm it was a scam? Primarily wondering if it's possible that the company itself contracted someone to do phishing test for new employees. I know there are plenty that do email version of this.
3 days ago
Did you confirm it was a scam? Primarily wondering if it's possible that the company itself contracted someone to do phishing test for new employees. I know there are plenty that do email version of this.
I got these around the same time frame. The funny thing is that the named CEO was for a company I'd left the year prior. I was still in touch with coworkers from that company, and they told me that it wasn't a training exercise by the infosec team. The infosec team had actually warned people about it after hearing about people getting those texts.
I would hope they don’t do that before I start using my personal number.
If someone did fall for it, the potential that your employees would spend real money that they wouldn’t get reimbursed for would definitely piss a lot of people off.
If they did it I would assume they would do it in a way that the employee would need to get some information first (e.g. the amount or type of gift card) before committing to anything. Or directing to buy it from some fake web shop.
Ceo scam is very common. Anytime someone claims to be a ceo verify! CEO is a popular target because they have power and can request weird things of employees who don't know them in normal business.
Yeah, it happened a bunch when I was working for Yahoo… it became a running joke that our CEO was desperate for gift cards
I know. That's why I wondered if some companies had started running training exercises for the phone variants. Personally I have only encountered the email ones previously.