Program Description
On a Tuesday morning in 2019, the controller of a manufacturing company in Ohio received an email from the CEO. The message was brief and urgent. The company was finalizing a confidential acquisition, and a wire transfer of $4.8 million needed to be sent immediately. The CEO was traveling and couldn't be reached by phone, but this was time sensitive. The routing information was attached.
The controller had worked with this CEO for eleven years. The email looked exactly like every other email she had received from him. Same signature. Same tone. Same slight grammatical quirk he always had. The acquisition had been rumored internally for months. Everything checked out.