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Gift card scam impersonates your supervisor](https://blog.cspire.com/phishing-alert-gift-card-scam-impersonates-your-supervisor) By: [C Spire](https://blog.cspire.com/author/c-spire) on Feb 22, 2022 10:41:51 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.cspire.com/hubfs/Phishing%20alert%20Feb%202022.jpg)](https://blog.cspire.com/phishing-alert-gift-card-scam-impersonates-your-supervisor) If you’ve received a message from your boss requesting a gift card, it’s probably a phishing attempt. “We’re seeing a rise in gift card scams,” says Conrad Bell, Chief Information Security Officer at C Spire. “Hackers send people emails or text messages in which they pretend to be a supervisor or a senior executive. They trick employees into buying gift cards and sending them the activation codes.” Once the codes are sent, the money is gone. 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