You accuse Isabella of embezzling company funds, threatening to send the proof to the regulatory board. You hit send.
The response is almost instantaneous, but it doesn't come from Isabella. It comes from your handler, Dane.
> **Dane**: *"They just locked down the entire external network. What did you send her?"*
You tell him about the embezzlement threat. Dane lets out a long, exhausted sigh.
> **Dane**: *"She's the Director of Risk Oversight. Her personal accounts are audited quarterly by external regulators. She knows she's clean. The moment you accused her of something she could mathematically prove false, she knew you were a phisher throwing darts in the dark."*
Your screen flashes as your staging servers are blacklisted by Blackridge's firewall.
You fundamentally misunderstood your target. Isabella bends the rules to make the *firm* money, not to steal for herself. You bluffed, and she called it.
> **Dane**: *"Burn the laptops. We are scrubbing the op."*
[[Burn The Operation|Burn the operation]]