A ‘simple’ email scam almost cost Barbara Corcoran $400,000—here’s how to avoid falling for the same thing

A ‘simple’ email scam almost cost Barbara Corcoran $400,000—here’s how to avoid falling for the same thing

InFebruary, Barbara Corcoran, founder of real estate brokerage firm Corcoran Group and judge on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” was nearly scammed out of $400,000.

“Scammers found their way to me in the most clever and simple way,” she tells CNBC Make It. 

The scammers emailed Corcoran’s bookkeeper pretending to be her assistant. The message contained an invoice supposedly authorized by her assistant to…

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