Risk Level: Medium
I thought my boss was asking me to buy gift cards for clients.
Didn’t read the email address or question it too deeply because I’m new to the job and I was afraid of being fired or in trouble. The message was sent at 9am with “can I have help with a quick project.” I read it at 1:30pm and was afraid if I didn’t do it fast enough they’d be mad I wasn’t at my email. I sent the gift card numbers.
If you get a sketchy email from work and you just updated LinkedIn there could be correlation.
Apparently scammers go after people after they update their LinkedIn with a new job because they won’t know their boss/company culture well enough to say “That’s fishy”. If you sent the gift cards/card numbers then all you can do now is move on accepting it as a hard lesson learned.
If you still have the cards and they didn't get that info, you can trade them in to a gift card exchange site to try to recoup some of the money.