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My best friend used to work at a local fast food chain, and there was one week when we were both on vacation with our other friends. He was a Lead and the manager was also away during this timeframe.
We find out that some employee ended up falling for a phone scam, someone called the restaurant stating that they were the manager and needed money to cover some business costs. So this scammer tells the employee to buy gift cards and read out the numbers on the phone and such.
This dumbass ACTUALLY does this, while using the restaurant funds. He goes to Walmart with cash from the drawers, buys the gift cards worth like 5000 bucks, and gives them all to the scammer on the phone.
It wasn't until after the full transaction completed that the dumbass employee decided to call my friend asking if what he did was okay, and my friend was like "FUCK NO, WHY THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT, ARE YOU INSANE?"
And yeah, pretty sure that dude was fired and they just had to deal with being short 5000 dollars.
I imagine the guy being 3000IQ and wanted to leave, so he pretended to be scammed to be fired without quitting and divided the 5000$ with his pal
I feel like part of falling for this is being in a job where you don't question management doing stupid shit that shouldn't be your job. I works hope that $5000 would ping your bullshit meter, but I could easily see falling for a more believable story. Maybe not at a fast food place but like, a big office or some place where there are bullshit parties. Especially with a spoofed email or text rather than a voice call. "It's [some fake appreciation day] and I need to bring in cake/gifts, I don't have the business card on me, buy this $200 gift card and give me the info."
If you're stressed and have a shitty boss with no boundaries, I could see it working.
Holy shit, how fucking dumb can you be? Hes lucky he didnt get the shit sued out him