I'm sorry, but I simply do not understand how employees tasked with managing such large amounts of money can repeatedly be this stupid. Are they hiring poorly trained people because they are needy, or because they are buddies of the boss, or what?
I'm sorry, but I simply do not understand how employees tasked with managing such large amounts of money can repeatedly be this stupid. Are they hiring poorly trained people because they are needy, or because they are buddies of the boss, or what?
Maybe a little grace can be extended here. Both my grandfathers who are highly intelligent and accomplished men who are lively and of sound mind (one was still doing colonoscopies at 85 until a year ago and still is active in medical research). The other is now 90 and aside from congestive heart failure, he’s active and a retired successful pharmacist and business man.
Both of them in the last 2 years have had scammers try them. In the latter’s case, the scammers imitated his bank so closely that even the bank was confused by it and a significant sum of money moved! And it wasn’t a little small town bank, it was one of our ‘Big 4’ who should bloody know better. It took his son, a corporate lawyer, had to throw his weight around and get to the bottom of the security breach and not treat him like a silly old coot who clicked the wrong link.
The former happened to be sick with Covid, and the scammers posing as the bank *almost* had him. He came to his senses when they asked for his password, and my mother happened to call my grandmother and overheard the other phone conversation. She got my Dad straight onto it and it got shut down before money moved anywhere. They had gotten as far as downloading screen takeover software. It was highly embarrassing for both of them, and it was hard for them to not only work out what happened but also to accept help getting it sorted.
We’re all human and those scammers are bloody good. The psychology is fascinating too. We all want to think ‘we’re too smart to fall for that..’ and yet I’ll bet you know at least one person who has and will never speak of it because it is so humiliating. That same shame is what keeps you getting scammed too, and the scammers know that too. It’s now becoming common for the same scammers to approach their own victims a couple of months later and offer ‘cash recovery services’ and ‘security checks and upgrades’ in Australia.
These scams are getting increasingly sophisticated too - think things like the "CEO" jumping on a call to confirm the "request" is really coming from him, but it's really just an AI voice clone
I don't have enough information to know if Carnitas was egregiously behind in their IT sec training and financial processes, or just "normal" behind
I'm sorry, but I simply do not understand how employees tasked with managing such large amounts of money can repeatedly be this stupid. Are they hiring poorly trained people because they are needy, or because they are buddies of the boss, or what?
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Maybe a little grace can be extended here. Both my grandfathers who are highly intelligent and accomplished men who are lively and of sound mind (one was still doing colonoscopies at 85 until a year ago and still is active in medical research). The other is now 90 and aside from congestive heart failure, he’s active and a retired successful pharmacist and business man.
Both of them in the last 2 years have had scammers try them. In the latter’s case, the scammers imitated his bank so closely that even the bank was confused by it and a significant sum of money moved! And it wasn’t a little small town bank, it was one of our ‘Big 4’ who should bloody know better. It took his son, a corporate lawyer, had to throw his weight around and get to the bottom of the security breach and not treat him like a silly old coot who clicked the wrong link.
The former happened to be sick with Covid, and the scammers posing as the bank *almost* had him. He came to his senses when they asked for his password, and my mother happened to call my grandmother and overheard the other phone conversation. She got my Dad straight onto it and it got shut down before money moved anywhere. They had gotten as far as downloading screen takeover software. It was highly embarrassing for both of them, and it was hard for them to not only work out what happened but also to accept help getting it sorted.
We’re all human and those scammers are bloody good. The psychology is fascinating too. We all want to think ‘we’re too smart to fall for that..’ and yet I’ll bet you know at least one person who has and will never speak of it because it is so humiliating. That same shame is what keeps you getting scammed too, and the scammers know that too. It’s now becoming common for the same scammers to approach their own victims a couple of months later and offer ‘cash recovery services’ and ‘security checks and upgrades’ in Australia.
These scams are getting increasingly sophisticated too - think things like the "CEO" jumping on a call to confirm the "request" is really coming from him, but it's really just an AI voice clone
I don't have enough information to know if Carnitas was egregiously behind in their IT sec training and financial processes, or just "normal" behind