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For a minute I thought this was a scam because it came on a tuesday.

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let's pretend that was an intentional meta touch and not just a product of me not having my act together Sunday evening

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Of course that was my next thought.

It's Pre-May and time is meaningless anyway. I had to check if it was actually Tuesday after I said that.

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

At a previous job, a bowl of swedish fish (or, perhaps, phish, in this context) would be put out in the kitchen each Friday that we went a whole week without anyone falling for the test phishing emails IT would send out... It took me a few months to realize the bowl only went out on weeks our semi-retired founder/president emeritus was on vacation.

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

We would get scolded every staff meeting when we did not get a perfect group score. We had 2 staff members who clicked on everything, a conspiracy nut, and someone how may be in the same age range as your founder. When they both left, magically we went to getting 100% and then the training stopped. Some people should not have email access.

My wife's old colleague (who was a nepotism hire and 20 something) actually completed one of these scams. Bought $1,000 worth of apple gift cards and sent the codes to the "CEO." The firm reimbursed her colleague and he never was punished/fired for it. She ultimately moved on to another organization.

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I believe that the technical term for both of those is "big yikes" lol

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ahahahahaha

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

This showed up in my email inbox right above three spam emails.

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[narrows eyes] those millions are *mine*, hands off!

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

FIREWORKS BOAT

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

Feels like a title of a movie that passes without much fanfare but Brian Grubb posts so many screencaps of it that I eventually watch it and have a delightful 90 minutes of insanity

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It’s very efficient- you can have the most dramatic afternoon of your life followed immediately by your Viking funeral

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I do like efficiency

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And also making an impression!

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

Look, $50 million isn't that much. You can't even get a top MLB pitcher for that.

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hey, I'm a Guardians fan, that's half a roster

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

I got a chill after this one. I consider myself very IT-knowledgeable (worked in the field for years), use the finest security packages on my computer and phone, and avoid any online scams or huckster emails. And yet - a month or so ago - I somehow let two (very clever) fools on the phone convince me they were from my bank and from Apple technical support and after a half hour of getting deeper and deeper into their spiel I basically Zelle'd them all the money in my bank account. It took 3 weeks to get access to my funds again.

In my very weak defense, they were really good, and Zelle has recently been hit grievously by scams just like this. But really there is no defense; NO bank would call you on the phone, bring someone else in on the call, and ask you for your Apple ID because there was a "problem with your iCloud account".

They tapped me in the late afternoon on a day off. Beer had been consumed. I never knew what hit me.

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

"voice to text" plus "girl from DelCo" could lead to translation errors like this, especially when excited/drunk, and who wouldn't be excited if they had $50M? No way a Samsung phone would correctly translate "wooder" as "water" and it would have no idea what to do with "youse guys" or "go Birds"

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

I can approve of a move from Monday's emotional beatdowns to Tuesdays Real Life as told by ACBN. I look forward to the rules of the shared office microwave (done in a Law & Order/CSI style of who microwaved fish), the meeting that could have been an email (as told by an architect rating doodles as the meeting progresses), the mandatory office party.

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

We lost FiL in December. By March, MiL had already been scammed multiple times. They both were hardcore subscribers to any and every harebrained consipracy theory or fast talking salesperson trying to get access to their accounts. We had to have a long, patient talk about "Don't answer calls from numbers you don't know, don't reply to emails you haven't asked for. Before you do anything, ask us."

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

If this had been emailed to my team we’d be having a 45 minimum rolling inquest via email and teams about whether it was legitimate, because the best possible thing that the IT security folks could have done was encourage a group of software testers, who hate getting things wrong and examine content at the character level, to be paranoid about anything even remotely out of the ordinary

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Apr 30Liked by Scott Hines

i didn’t even make it past the first picture without thinking “if i had that much money i’d buy a boat”

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I see you're a man of discerning taste. Might I interest you in some fireworks?

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My sister got popped in one of those IT sends out a phishing scam to see who clicks at her work a few weeks back, so now I'm bullying her by sending her content like this. I am a terrible brother.

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I’m just disappointed that $1.99/lb brisket wasn’t sent as an emergency alert to your subscribers. Some of us want cheap meat too, Scott!

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It's been a few months, I feel like we're due soon. I'll send out a Code Beef next time it happens. (Usually once or twice a year at Kroger.)

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