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Email hoaxer catches out top brass at Citi and Goldman

Prankster adds CEOs Michael Corbat and Lloyd Blankfein to his hit-list

Michael Corbat, chief executive officer of Citigroup
Michael Corbat, chief executive officer of Citigroup Photo: Getty Images

The email prankster who has already fooled the Barclays CEO and Bank of England governor in little over a month has struck again at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.

On Sunday night, the trickster, a 38-year-old web designer from Manchester in the UK, emailed Citigroup’s CEO Michael Corbat and consumer banking chief Stephen Bird, pretending to be the bank’s chairman Michael O’Neill.

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