One thing our in-house Cyber Incident Response Team has noticed is a clever kind of CEO fraud that revolves around gift cards. This happens when a seemingly legitimate email comes from someone senior within a business where he or she asks an employee to buy gift cards as client gifts. That same executive then emails again to request the unique code on the back of the gift cards, under the guise of expediting the gift giving. Of course, the employee eventually discovers that the original requests weren’t legitimate and that the email had either been hacked or spoofed. This is a particularly effective attack method with so many people working remotely where it’s not as easy to quickly ask someone to verify something. Tip: If someone asks you, by email, to buy something, even someone within your business, follow-up with a phone call.