SUSPECTED SCAM!

Other Scam
sc.barrett77@virginmedia.com Cheryl Barrett

Date04/16/2025
Fraudulent emailsc.barrett77@virginmedia.com
PseudonymCheryl Barrett
Scam contentsEmail posing as my boss asking if I was available, I replied, it then said I need your help with something important. I want to surprise some of our hardworking employees with bonus vouchers cards as a token of appreciation. This needs to be kept confidential until the surprise is done to maintain the element of surprise. Can you assist me...discretely and you'll be rewarded accordingly for carrying out the task. I said happy to help, they came back saying ...having a busy day...I can trust you to keep this a surprise. I would need you to purchase on my behalf, can you locate a store (Aldi, Officeworks, Woolworths, Big W, Kmart) what store do you think...I then said before I do that I want to be sure its you and asked for details of how we met. I then contacted my boss and asked if she had sent emails to my private email and she said no.
Comment / ReviewI work in human resources so doing rewards for employees is part of my gig so it was somewhat convincing except the person addressed me by my formal first name which my boss doesn't tend to use which was the first thing I noted as odd and then the next thing is that my boss would have no need to be secretive about buying vouchers. This is definitely some sort of scam attempt to get money by way of asking me to buy vouchers for them.

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