why would you need a shark how in the
world is one of the savviest business
women in the country gets scammed this
morning I wired $388,000 into a false
French accountant Asia shark tank
started real-estate mogul Barbara
Corcoran said she became a victim of a
phishing email scam her bookkeeper
received what appeared to be a
legitimate email from Corcoran's
assistant approving an invoice for three
hundred and eighty eight thousand seven
hundred and eleven dollars and eleven
cents it was to be paid to a company in
Germany
Corcoran told GMA that the bookkeeper
wired the money someone sells your bill
is paid and this one instance it was not
a good strategy the scam came to light
when Corcoran steam realized her last
name was misspelled when she showed me
the emails that went back and forth with
the false address I realized immediately
it's something I would have fallen for
if I had seen the emails Corcoran can't
get the money back even though she says
investigators traced the scam to an
email account in China believe it or not
the same thing just happened to me my
bookkeeper received this email that
looked like it came from me
except the email address was off by one
letter it asked her to send a cashier's
check in the amount of nineteen thousand
five hundred dollars from my account to
an address in Seattle well the good news
is my bookkeeper called me to confirm it
and that's when we discovered the scam
Barbara Corcoran's advice is simple be
careful when you wire money I couldn't
agree more
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