A phish doesn’t stand a chance against a shark.
It was a happy ending for Corcoran Group founder Barbara Corcoran when she got back all $388,700.11 that was stolen in a phishing scam.
“I’m thrilled!” the “Shark Tank” star told Page Six in a statement on Friday. “I had already accepted it and moved on. Everyone told me I wouldn’t get the money back and it just seems unbelievable!”
On Wednesday night, Corcoran, 70, confirmed that she’d been duped in an email scam. A fraudster posed as her assistant and emailed her bookkeeper instructions to pay a German company called FFH Concept GmbH for designing German apartment units that Corcoran had allegedly invested in.
The ruse was discovered when Corcoran’s bookkeeper emailed the real assistant and they realized the scammer had changed one letter in her email address to pose as her. Her IT people then traced the IP address to China.
Corcoran explained that her bank contacted the German bank being used for the transfer and froze the money before it went through to Asia.
“I really thought it was a goner!” she told us.
On Wednesday, Corcoran — who has an estimated net worth of $80 million — had accepted the sad news that she might never see the money again.
“I was upset at first but then remembered it was only money,” she had told Page Six in a statement.
Corcoran did not immediately return our request for comment.
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