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by jjeaff 1458 days ago
Have the employee ask 3 questions.

Are you paying to claim lottery winnings?

Is a nigerian prince asking you to transfer money for them?

Has someone you don't know deposited money in your bank account and needs you to wire cash to someone else?

If the answer is yes to any of those, decline the transfer and give them a pamphlet on common scams. This would take care of about 90% of the problem.

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> If the answer is yes to any of those, decline the transfer and give them a pamphlet on common scams. This would take care of about 90% of the problem.

Decline the transfer. You would be surprised on the latter though - people have walked their family through the scam, "No, I still think it's probably legit", even gotten police involved, "ma'am, these people online are scamming you", "But what if they're not?"