<ul><li>A Twitter user has warned of a new type of scam that involves text messages sent to employees pretending to be the CEO of their company.</li><li>Shikhar Saxena, an employee of Meesho, received a WhatsApp message from a con artist pretending to be the founder and CEO of Meesho, Vidit Aatrey.</li><li>The scammer asked Saxena to make a purchase on Paytm for a client, promising to reimburse him later, and asked Saxena to confirm if he could make the purchase.</li><li>Saxena shared a screenshot of the exchange on Twitter to warn others about the scam, and many people in the comments section shared similar experiences with scam messages.</li></ul>

Employee receives WhatsApp message from ‘CEO’ in latest startup scam

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