Thread by @CraneHassold

Meet Donna. Donna is a Financial Executive at a made-up company.

Meet Russell. Russell is the CEO of at the same made-up company.

Meet #BEC Scammer, who wants Donna to make a payment to a vendor.

Poor guy. He doesn't know what's about to happen.

Mule account #1. ✅

Donna's a beast. She'll definitely get this done for you, Russell. No need to worry at all.

"You welcome?" Methinks there might be something a little suspicious here. English was Fake Russell's favorite subject in school.

I'm confident there won't be any issues with this transaction. 🤫

Unbelievable! The first wire transfer was rejected by the bank! That NEVER happens! Russell should probably just send over another bank account for the vendor for us to try.

Whew, thankfully the vendor has another account we can use that's located in the...United Arab Emirates?

Mule account #2. ✅✅

Donna's a trooper. She's going to give this a try, but her years of fake financial experience tell her that a wire to the UAE might be a little tricky.

Russell, though, is confident that we're going to get it to work this time. 🤞🏼

I'm pretty sure it was Kevin Costner that said, "If it process, it will come."

Dammit! Just as Donna thought, our fake bank for our fake company is restricted from sending wire transfers to the UAE. This just isn't our day. Whatever shall we do now???

Apparently, this vendor (which, by the way has remained nameless this entire time) has bank accounts set up all over the place. Hopefully, third time is the charm!

Mule account #3 ✅✅✅

This really is usually such a smooth process. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Silly Donna! She must be getting tired at the end of a long day of fake work. Inverting the account number and routing number on a routine wire transfer is such a rookie move!

How suspicious! After a night of blissful sleep, Donna checks her email in the morning to find a message from the bank saying that the last transfer is on hold because the vendor account has been flagged for fraud! Oh no! 😲

Surely, we must be at the end of this, right?

Wrong! While Fake CEO Russell works with fake vendor #1 to get its stuff together, let's go ahead and take care of a payment for fake vendor #2! 🤦🏼‍♂️

Mule account #4 ✅✅✅✅

Donna's on it! This second vendor can't possibly have the same issues as the first vendor.

I really hope fake Russell can shed some insight into quarterly employee bonuses. Sounds like it might be a hot topic around the fake company.

Nope, Fake Russell doesn't have an update about employee bonuses. I have a feeling that's not going to go over well.

Something serious happened at this fake company in December. Good thing that bastard Fake Ethan got fired! Get these fake employees their bonuses!

And shock of all shocks, the new transfer is having issues. Donna's going to have to investigate!

Fake Russell wants an update. Hope there haven't been anymore complications. **sigh**

The second vendor must be having financial difficulties. Wire transfer is being held up due to low funds in their bank account (is that even a thing?). These vendors sure make it difficult to get money to them!

Well, it's been two hours and no response from Fake CEO Russell. I think he's given up. 😢

Or not! Fake CEO Russell must have been busy with other fake CEO duties yesterday, but he's back! I really appreciate him advocating for the timely payment of vendors. He sure is running a virtuous ship.

And with that, we've also got a reference to mysterious vendor #3! #BEC

Transfer issues have been a recent issue at our fake company. Fake Ron's having them too!

Uh oh, Fake Russell is getting a little frustrated with all of these issues! 😏

Here's Donna schooling Fake Russell on the intricacies of wire transfer policy (that are actually completely made up, but sound totally legit)!

But sure, please also send over the account info for the third vendor. Donna will get right on it!

So glad Fake Russell is understanding of the issues Donna is having. Good thing he trusts her to take care of yet another invoice that needs to be paid!

Mule account #5 ✅✅✅✅✅

I mean, this verification process could take a WHILE! Probably would be best to try something else.

But don't worry, Donna's totally taking care of the other payment.

And, oh yeah, what ever happened to first vendor account with the fraud warning? 🤔

Don't worry, Donna will make sure we get our money back Fake Russell!

I really believe we're going to get one of these transfers to go through.

Oh wait...

I mean, Fake Russell really should know the policy when it comes to trying to make a wire transfer when the account holder is in a different state from the bank. Shouldn't that be common knowledge with fake CEOs? 🤔

And congrats to Ramona! Who's Ramona you ask? 🤷🏼‍♂️

And he's back for Day 3! Fake Russell seems to be disregarding all previous emails at this point, coming back with a generic intro. Probably too much to keep track of. Donna's always "on desk" though!

And he couldn't even get the spoofed display name right this time! 🤦🏼‍♂️

Spoiler alert: Fake Russell will not have a Happy Friday.

Oh Fake Russell, you want updates on all the transfers do you? Where should we begin...

Transfer status update: 😭

Can't help but think of Clubber Lang from Rocky right now.

Glad Fake Russell is up to speed. And just what we need after all these problem, another mystery vendor! Hopefully, their accounts are in good working order. 😏

Who does Fake Russell think we are, a company that has a ton of accounts at our disposal to pay our vendors? Questioning Donna won't end well for anyone.

Now, if you would, go ahead and pass over another mule account that I'm going to predict might not be functioning properly.

To stay on today's Rocky theme:

Uh oh, looks like someone forgot to turn on their VPN. 😏

I know, I'm just as shocked as you that this guy is from Nigeria. 🙄