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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by manyxcxi on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:22AM (#10864999)
That's funny, my first thought was to fire the accountant as well. Then I thought about it, who has more experience with these scammers than the accountant that screwed up? I would wager they would never fall for it again if they were any sort of reasonable human being- whereas a new accountant has probably never even heard of this scam and you're vulnerable all over again.

What I would do, though, is get my lawyer involved to write up a new contract that would make them liable for every last penny should this happen again.

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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by throwaway7767 on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:32AM (#10865062)
> What I would do, though, is get my lawyer involved to write up a new contract that would make them liable for every last penny should this happen again.

No accountant would work for you with that stipulation, the risk/reward calculation doesn't make sense.

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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by gambiting on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:34AM (#10865072)
Not true, my accountant has a contract where she is responsible for any mistakes or miscalculated taxes etc so she has to pay them. She does have a registered accountancy office though and insurance against this sort of thing though so the risk for her is also minimal.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by arethuza on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:29AM (#10865505)
That doesn't sound like an in-house accountant (i.e. an employee) but that you are engaging an external accountant to work for you - completely different commercial relationships.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by DrJokepu on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:33PM (#10867049)
And they typically have liability insurance anyway. Your contract is not worth the paper it's written on if the accountant is unlikely to be able to ever repay the loss.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by rubidium on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:55AM (#10865225)
"When called into Watson's office, the fellow said "I suppose you want my resignation." Watson looked at him and replied: "Are you kidding? We just spent ten million dollars educating you." "
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by koliber on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:33AM (#10865067)
Accountants who have let this happen should put the fact on their resume or CV. It will make them more appealing to hire since they are not likely to repeat that kind of mistake.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by jaynos on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:02AM (#10865284)
In reality, this is probably true, but HR would never let that resume through.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by Mahn on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:16AM (#10865405)
"Expertise in security processes and stipulations for large transactions and accounting operations", there you go. If they ask in the interview, say it happened to a colleague sitting next to you and you learned a lot from it.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by FireBeyond on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:09PM (#10866854)
An accountant who has honesty issues. Makes for a good sales pitch.
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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by slavik81 on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:09PM (#10867817)
> Then I thought about it, who has more experience with these scammers than the accountant that screwed up?

On the other hand, sometimes people fall for scams because they are extremely gullible and they never learn. e.g. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36572169

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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by walshemj on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:55PM (#10868608)
Does the professional body fr accounting not have anything to say - if a Medic is grossly incompetent they can get struck off for life - as can bankers if they realy screw up
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