Either that or these scammers are REALLY good

IT chief pilot fish at this financial services company gets an e-mail forwarded by the CEO -- and the big boss is very worried.

"The e-mail, addressed 'Dear Tenant,' gave instructions on new payment of rent instructions," says fish. "It included wire-transfer information as well as a P.O. box to send payments to.

"It was written in legalese, and included phone numbers and addresses of offices to contact for any lease issues. It referenced our physical address on several occasions as well."

The CEO is understandably very nervous. It looks to him like someone has done lots of research for this scam, all the way down to details such as the name of the attorney representing the building's owner and the CEO's e-mail address.

Fish explains to the CEO that if someone really wants to find this information, it's pretty easy just to do a search on an address and find dozens of tenants at that address.

The scammer can then search each company name and find out information on the company, including executive names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, fish explains.

This does not make the CEO feel any better.

But an hour later, something else does. "Our CFO, who was cc'd on the original e-mail, finally responded," fish reports. "He said the building's owners had recently hired a new management company, and would obviously have been given all the information about the tenants.

"I guess that would explain the level of detail they included in the e-mail."

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