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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by positr0n on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:58AM (#10865255)
Agreed with my sibling post, that email would probably get flagged and dropped as spam before it got to the accountant.

I've seen an email like this aimed at the company I work for and it was something like [email protected] (just one letter was doubled from the real domain).

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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by Retric on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:08AM (#10865340)
I think you both missed:

Conpany vs Company

Which just demonstrates how easy it is to get this past people.

PS: That or you where just assuming that was an error on my part ops. I did briefly correct it before realizing it was a better example.

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Re:The 'bogus boss' email scam costing firms millions by brazzledazzle on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:15PM (#10866906)
If it was flagged as spam it would probably be due to a misconfiguration on the fraudster's end. There might be some anti-spam systems that might be looking for this now but I've yet to see it listed as a feature.
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