@stefano As embarrassing as it may be, I once was scammed by someone pretending to be the owner of the company where I worked. I lost approximately $1,000

However, I did learn my lesson and checking the email address of any suspicious email is the first thing I do now

@gabe_saltar don't be embarrassed. In 2004 or 2005, I was scammed on ebay, too. I lost 1700 euros

@stefano Damn! That sucks!

@gabe_saltar it does. I felt stupid. Then I was angry, because it wasn't easy to spot. They stole the login credentials of a legit shop and changed the IBAN. PayPal or other similar tools weren't available. It came out that more than 15 people were scammed, all around Europe. We got in touch with one another and we all went to the police but they couldn't find the money. There's been some money transfer from the original country (Germany) to another, non European country and then...everything lost.

@stefano WOW! In my case the person pretended to be my boss, and asked me to send him money in for apple gift cards... It sounded suspicious as hell, but I felt for it because I was new in the company. It was second week at the job and I didn't know anyone in the company well enough to make the correct judgement call.

I found the whole thing to be embarrassing because my major is in Cyber Security. To say I felt stupid, would be understatement of the year

@gabe_saltar bad things can happen to all of us. But life goes on, and we lean the lesson

@stefano so true ... Ma penso che in italiano voi dite... Mannaggia....