Pretty much every single hotel gets a call from Mr. Patel at night asking to wire money due to an emergency. A lot of hotel employees fell for it and wire money. These employees even drill open the safe. Some even wire money from their personal account.
This scam is mostly social engineering without any AI/Deepfake. It's going to be a fun time ahead for everyone.
He explained the whole thing to me.
But the way he described the phenomenon made it seem pretty common, and indeed, a quick search for "patel cfo scam hotels" turns up a number of relevant results... Seems like it's a pretty well known, frequently occurring event in the hotel industry.
At any rate, a 5s Google of "patel hotel indian scam call site:www.reddit.com" reveals dozens of threads of people sharing essentially the same anecdote. Is that enough for you sir, or do you need something peer reviewed?
Not quite identical but close.
Other common scam is IT support.
My engineering manager fell for the CEO gift card scam.
Except the kicker is the CEO has asked him to actually do the same thing before for real hahaha