India, Aug. 9 -- A Gurgaon-based startup founder has shared how a scammer impersonated him over email and attempted to dupe one of his employees into buying gift vouchers worth Rs.25,000. The scammer posed as Sankalp Shree, co-Founder and director of Spectent, and carried out a seemingly genuine conversation with the employee before asking for the purchase.

Shree shared details of the incident in a LinkedIn post, along with screenshots of the email exchange, saying he "genuinely couldn't believe how convincing they looked". "Looks like I've been secretly emailing my employees... asking them for money. Except, I wasn't," he wrote in the caption of the post.

The founder said that the conversation began with a simple message from the imper...