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Social Engineering in the Workplace
An anonymous reader writes "Could a total stranger walk out of your business with thousands of dollars in merchandise without your knowing? Even worse, could they manipulate you into helping them each step along the way?"
Correction: He wasn't wearing a suit. He was wearing a black polo and khakis, aka the casual corporate uniform.
It's been said that with a hard hat and a clipboard you can get into nearly any building. This is just another example of that taken a step further.
Well, because while the warehouse guys and shop flunkies can come and go on a weekly basis, nobody, NOBODY ever gets to pay with the money. Two people are normally required to do the counting, and then it gets put in the safe.
Also, while moving merchandise round is done everywhere in broadly the same way, the cash routines are normally more tightly fixed and less easy to predict. Also, the money has to be counted nice and carefully as the cashiers need to check they haven't screwed up during the day.