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This company is the target of a spear-phishing attack, but it doesn't actually get very far, according to an IT pilot fish working there.
"It was the typical 'CEO is out of the office and needs a wire transfer done right away' message," fish says.
"Our people are pretty good at spotting phishing attempts, and our administrative assistant was immediately suspicious because we do wire transfers approximately never. She strung the guy along over multiple emails and got all the transfer information -- amount, routing number, account number and so on.