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Should I resign from a position with an organization
I've recently assumed the duties of a treasurer for a career-related organization. Recently, I received a spoofed email allegedly coming from our organization's president asking me to send money to a vendor. It turns out that this was fraudulent, and unfortunately I transferred the money to a potential scammer. I don't know if I can recover the money or not; there is a strong possibility that I may be unable to do so. The organization is aware of this, and so far, they seem to be okay with it. However, as a result, I believe that my credibility and judgment with this organization are ruined permanently, and I think it would be best to submit my resignation from the treasurer position of this organization. Please let me know what some options are and if resigning is the best course of action that I should take.
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Hello, I feel sorry for what just happened to you at your work. You should be aware that this is a common trend by which scammers obtain funds from companies and organizations. My advice is you shouldn't resign due to the following listed reasons below:
1. You resigning could send false misinterpretation of your actions that you were part of the fraudulent act and you want to elope just in case.
2. You might be charged for fraud later on if after you resign and your case file is reviewed.
3. You resign and you indirectly give credit to the scammers for letting them take away your source of livelihood.
From what you have said above, you implied that the organisation is fine with it and they have not taken any actions against you. What I would do in your case is setup ways to track down this fraudster and bring him to justice if atleast the funds cannot be recovered. This form of scam is frequent and has loopholes in nailing the fraudster via withdrawal of the funds from the designated account. There has been numerous cases of such brought to Rehabculture Hack store where the culprit is tracked and his IP address given to the police to make immediate arrest. Don't accept defeat easily, you getting this culprit caught, might not only wipe off your mistake but would earn you an appraisal and maybe a promotion for a good work. Reach out to Customer Service at Rehabculture Hack store for assistance in tracking down this fraudster via rehabculture@protonmail.com. I would be very glad that you are free of self guilt after those behind such acts are behind bars.
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Resigning is always an option an to me it means I have failed in someway. I don't see where you failed. If there is a failure here it is with a system that failed to take into account the ability to penetrate and scam a new treasurer.
Instead of resigning I would take my game to the next level and put systems in place to prevent this type of occurrence from ever happening again to you or anyone else in the organization.
One fix I would recommend vendors are not paid without an invoice and copy of original purchase request approved for payment by the person or department originally requesting the work or item. This relieves the treasure of the responsibility of vendor payments for which he/she is not the original purchase requester.
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I don't see your embarrassment over being duped to be a good reason for wanting to resign. As you said, the organization is aware of this and your words are that they are okay with this.
If they are okay with it, I don't believe they hold you responsible. All it was is a wake up call to them that their email can be hacked or faked really well for fraudulent purposes. They most likely realize from seeing it themselves that any one of them could have been fooled. If they are really smart, they will learn from this, and so would you, to double check with the person you recieved the email from, in person in case somehow a hacker is monitoring the emails and replying instead of the president. They may have to find a way to create safeguards for their computer system and create new rules.
If you don't believe me, I guess the best way to find out if they still value you as an employee is to set up a meeting with HR and the President and let them know how you are feeling due to this situation, as if you've failed them and how you are feeling that maybe you should resign because of it. You wouldn't after all be thinking of resigning if this never had happened. Maybe they haven't talked enough about it to calm you down so you don't fear what they think of you. Its high time you all talked it out. You can ask, saying you want to know if they feel they can no longer trust you in that position. You just want to know where you stand. If they value you, they will let you know and probably tell you something like I did, that any one of them could have been duped by a scam like this and that they see it as an opportunity to learn from and put better security and procedures in place in the organization. If they can say this easily, they are telling the truth. If they hedge about it and don't want to give you any reassurances, then something is wrong. An employer has to have good grounds to fire an employee. So obviously they are not seeing this scam and what you did as grounds to fire you or they already would have. You can't go running and hide every time in life that you make an error. Those who run and hide may never learn from their mistakes. However you are the employee and its rests as much on their shoulders as the owners, bosses, to have good procedures and safe guards on their computer system to prevent this happening ever again. I worked somewhere where the IT dept guy told me once that they don't just fix glitches on our computers but any emails coming onto the system, external or internal were seen by them first and they got an extreme amount of scams every day that they rejected or whatever they did with them. So talk to them. I think they are reasonable and good jobs are hard to find. Just let them know you'll be willing to help in any way to prevent this happening again once they've protected the company.
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