"Fake John"

I call him “Fake John”; he’s the one emailing me at 6:00 am asking what time I will be in the office, it seems “Fake John” needs my help. In one second I hit reply to say what do you need, but I notice who I am replying to and that is definitely not “Real John’s” email address. I have heard of this scam before where you respond and “Fake person” asks you to go purchase a bunch of ITunes gift cards to give to clients after his meeting.  The meeting runs late. He then advises to just send over the numbers from the gift cards so he can just text them to each client. When you finally see your boss and ask him how the clients like the ITunes cards and you see that “what are you talking about” look on his face, it is easily matched with the “what do you mean, what am I talking about” look on my face. With all the emails we get in the course of the business day we can easily get caught up in one of these scams. I have a hard time figuring out how anyone makes money off this and who has time to come up with these scams.  Since we are all in this together, it is good to share these stories. Just pause for a second before hitting send.  “I have heard this before”