Sometimes I think I'm just like one click away from a total catastrophe.
The perfectly crafted email at the perfect time can cause major damage.
Just look at what happened to Barbara Kokoren.
She's the judge on the tv show Shark Tank.
Here's a clip from CB's this morning.
I've got a very important warning of a financial scam here.
One of the stars of the reality show Shark Tank says she was a victim of.
They're calling it a phishing scam, but really it's a digital con job.
Barbara Corcoran, this is what happened last.
Week, her bookkeeper received an email about.
An invoice, and it appeared to be from Corcoran's assistant, a trusted source approving payment for a real estate renovation.
So her bookkeeper was told to send about $400,000 to someone regarding some real estate expense.
The email looked like it came from Barbara's assistant, a trusted person.
And since Barbara was a real estate investor, this looked like a typical money transferred.
So her bookkeeper wired the money to this person, and it turns out it was all just a phishing email.
Barbara lost $400,000 because of a single spoofed email.
This hack wasn't technical.
It was manipulating a person, not a machine or a computer.
And I fear that we may always be vulnerable to this type of attack.
We can't update the firmware in our brain, and yes, we can be educated on how to spot this type of thing and avoid it.