Given how Hillary and her emails are still the rallying cry of just about every Trump supporter, you would think the current White House administration would have their socks pulled up in that department.

Not the case, though, because a UK-based ’email prankster’ managed to dupe White House staff into thinking he was a fellow member of staff, stirring the pot and turning them against each other.

The best bit – he even duped the White House official tasked with cyber security.

Their exchange via CNN:

“Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August,” the fake Jared Kushner on an Outlook account wrote to the official White House email account of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert. “It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.”

Bossert [above] wrote back: “Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can’t refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is” (redacted).

Bossert did not respond to CNN’s request for comment; the email prankster said he was surprised Bossert responded given his expertise.

The White House have admitted they were caught with their pants down, although luckily for them this email prankster just wanted to poke the bear, rather than expose the system to malware and the likes.

My favourite exchange is where the prankster pretended to be since-fired White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, squaring off with also now-fired Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci:

“I had promised myself I would leave my hands mud free,” wrote the fake Priebus, “but after reading your tweet today which stated how; ‘soon we will learn who in the media who has class, and who hasn’t’, has pushed me to this. That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you. At no stage have you acted in a way that’s even remotely classy, yet you believe that’s the standard by which everyone should behave towards you? General Kelly will do a fine job. I’ll even admit he will do a better job than me. But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical. And hurtful. I don’t expect a reply.”

The very real Scaramucci responded: “You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize [sic].”

Fake Priebus wrote back: “I can’t believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called ‘Mooch’, who can’t even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for.”

Actual Scaramucci responded: “Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me.”

The Ambassador to Russia-designate Jon Huntsman Jr was also fooled when the prankster pretended to be Eric Trump, Donnie’s son:

“Thanks for the thoughtful note,” the ambassador-designate wrote to fake Eric Trump. “Russia will be a challenging but no doubt rewarding assignment.” The fake Eric Trump responded with this suggestion: “Maybe we could have Dad sat (sic) on a horse, top off, giving the full Putin! He’s in better shape than his suits suggest.”

These recent golf pics would refute that:

The email prankster is actually running a Twitter account that dishes the dirt on other exchanges – find that HERE.

This isn’t his first foray into the game, of course:

In June, he hoodwinked Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs and Michael Corbat of Citigroup, and he did the same to Barclays CEO Jes Staley in May. Staley, thinking he was being emailed by Barclays chairman John McFarlane, praised the man he thought was his colleague in effusive detail, saying among other things that he had “all the fearlessness of Clapton.” The prankster said Staley was the most surprising of the responses, because it was the first one and because “he responded in such gushing detail.”

Be careful what you fire out on email, but then again you knew that already.

[source:cnn]