Goldman CEO gets duped by email prankster

Lloyd Blankfein just became the latest Wall Street boss to get duped by an email prankster.

The Goldman Sachs CEO, who recently has taken to Twitter for the first time, got lured into an embarrassing email exchange over the weekend by the same trickster who embarrassed Barclays CEO Jes Staley last month.

Blankfein — who last week took a dig at President Trump as his  “Infrastructure Week” announcements were overshadowed by the Comey hearings on Capitol Hill — got an email of congrats from an account bearing the name of Harvey Schwarz, Goldman’s president and operating chief.

“Just read that your; ‘how did infrastructure week go?’ Tweet won some award for most humorous tweet – Trump will be so pissed ;).”

The email was signed, “Harvey,” but was actually sent by a serial spoofer who calls himself, simply, “Email Prankster” on Twitter.

The hoaxster then sent Blankfein another email, suggesting that the Goldman boss should take his stand-up comedy talents to Las Vegas, and then joking that “a man could get easily corrupted,” by “all the girls and gambling.”

“I’d settle for getting away with it,” Blankfein responded.

The hoaxster posted the exchange on Twitter late Sunday, adding, “I made up the bit about an award. Naughty me.”

Separately over the weekend, the trickster tried to draw in Citi’s Corbat as well as Citi’s head of global consumer banking, Stephen Bird, by masquerading as Citi’s chairman Michael O’Neill.

While Corbat only replied that he couldn’t open a link the trickster had sent, Bird took the bait when the trickster noted that Blankfein had been duped by the email hoax.

“At least Lloyd was responsive … in the new economy that’s something,” Bird wrote. “Some of his peers are still getting their messages printed out.”

Officials at Goldman and Citi confirmed the email exchanges were authentic.

In May, the prankster fooled Barclays CEO Jes Staley, pretending to be the British bank’s former chairman, John McFarlane, saying Staley owed him “a large scotch” after getting the chairman’s support at a contentious shareholder meeting.

“Thanks for sharing the foxhole,” Staley replied.