CEO Subpoena Scam Is Back

[HardOCP News]

The old “CEO Subpoena” scam is back and, from the looks of it, people are still falling for it.

Verisign, which estimates that about 2,000 people were tricked by the scam on Monday, believes that Wednesday's attack was on a much smaller scale. Late Wednesday the company's iDefense group had tracked only about 100 infections, said Matt Richard, director of iDefense's Rapid Response Team.

 

[MartinX]

Scam aside, do courts actually send subpoenas this way?

As as far as I'm concerned, if it didn't come by registered snail-mail, it never happened.

 

[Gott]

P.T. Barnum said it best, "There's a sucker born every minute."

 

[roccovw]

How the hell are these corporations run if these guys are so gullible.

 

[Martyr]

i support ceo scamming.

 

[dawp]

Scam aside, do courts actually send subpoenas this way?

As as far as I'm concerned, if it didn't come by registered snail-mail, it never happened.

Although the U.S. federal court system uses email to communicate information about cases, subpoenas for new cases are not served via e-mail.

kinda surprising that a CEO would fall for this.