How in the world is one of the savviest business women in the country get scammed?

This morning I wired $388,000 until Full Spank account in Asia.

Shark Tank Star in real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran said she became a victim of a phishing email scam.

Her bookkeeper received what appeared to be a legitimate email from Corcoran's assistant, approving an invoice for $388,711.11.

It was to be paid to a company in Germany.

Corcoran told GM A that the bookkeeper wired the money someone sends Your bill is paid on this one instance.

It was not a good strategy.

The scam came to light when Corcoran's team realized her last name was misspelled.

When she showed me the e mails that went back and forth with the false address, I realized immediately it's something I would have fallen for if I had seen the emails.

Corcoran can't get the money back, even though she says investigators traced the scam to an email account in China.

Believe it or not, the same thing just happened to me.

My bookkeeper received this email that looked like it came from me.

Except the email address was off.

By one letter.

It asked her to send a cashier's check in the amount of $19,500 from my account to an address in Seattle.

While the good news is, my bookkeeper called me to confirm it, and that's when we discovered the scam.

Barbara Corcoran's advice is simple.

Be careful when you wire money.

I couldn't agree more.