Caitlin Sarian received an unsolicited copy of The One Minute Manager in the mail and discovered it was part of a scam. Unknown QR codes in mailed gifts can give hackers access to your personal data and wipe your accounts. Watch for red flags like lowercased names on Amazon labels.
So lucky I got a scammer gift in the mail. In case you don't know, scammers are literally sending out random gifts in the mail. I heard people are getting a grill, people are getting jewelry. I got the One Minute manager. The best part is it says it's the Indian edition, but the entire thing is in English. I genuinely thought it was a work gift. I was like, all right, we'll talk about it in our team meeting. Put it on my desk. Didn't think anything of it until I saw all these videos today about this scam that's going on. So you'll get a random gift, and then you'll get a card that says, do you want to know who this is from? And there's a QR code, and once you scan it, that's where hackers go into your phone and they'll sell all of your information and wipe every single card and account clean. I'm not going to lie to you. I probably would have scanned a QR code if I didn't see all these videos warning me about the scam. The scariest part is that it came in an Amazon package, but I knew I didn't order it because the way that they wrote out my name, it had no capitalization, so my first and last name were all lowercase. Honestly, terrified. Like, how the hell did I get my information? Please be careful. Do not let the scammers outsmart us. We work hard for our money. We're not going you let to.
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