Phishing Scam Targets Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran
The Perfect Scam
AARP
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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Barbara Corcoran is known for her business acumen, and with nearly 50 years in real estate under her belt, the 70-year-old mogul is still going strong. Corcoran can be seen every week as an investor and judge on ABC's hit showShark Tankand remains an active player in real estate development. Armed with this knowledge, scammers employ an elaborate email phishing scheme in an attempt to steal Barbara's money.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on AARP's The Perfect Scan, just when you thought it was safe to go in the water. |
| 0:08.0 | It was easy as could be, and it was really shocking how easily it went down. |
| 0:12.8 | And this was a wake-up call. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the scam that netted a shark. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to AARP's The Perfect Scam. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host, Michelle Kaczynski. |
| 0:24.8 | Shark Tanks, Barbara Corcoran tells us everything. |
| 0:29.2 | How she was actually reeled in in an elaborate, |
| 0:32.1 | extremely high stakes email fishing scam not once but twice. |
| 0:38.8 | And with me on today's show is another one and only fraud expert Frank Abagnale. It's great to have you on the show Frank. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Michelle good to be with you. So Frank this week's scam caught a big shark twice. |
| 0:50.4 | Somebody who's built a business empire on cutting through the nonsense and making deals. |
| 0:56.0 | But you know we constantly see that scams can target anyone. |
| 1:00.0 | We should all be aware that there's nobody that cannot end up being victimized by it. |
| 1:05.6 | As like I've said many times, I know I can be scammed. |
| 1:08.8 | I know the smartest people have been scammed or they've been a victim of scam. |
| 1:14.6 | And Frank, tell us what exactly is an email fishing scam. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, email fishing scams are getting very sophisticated. |
| 1:21.3 | Just a year ago, you could look at an email and realize the spelling was |
| 1:25.2 | bad, the grammar was bad. Today a lot of them are almost perfect because what they |
| 1:30.0 | do is they go to social media and they're able to get all of the information about |
| 1:35.0 | the individual. |
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