You type it out. *, Isabella.* Simple. Clean. No title, no formality, just the name, a dash before it, the way people sign things when they are in motion and want to seem like a person rather than a department.
You hit send.
Marc reads it at his desk with half his attention, which is usually enough for an Isabella email. He gets to the sign-off and something small hesitates in him. Not alarm. Not recognition. Just a single second where his thumb does not move.
*, Isabella.*
He has seen that sign-off before. In her phone messages, the quick ones she sends when she is between meetings or walking somewhere. Not in a PRAP authorization. Not in anything that asks him to click a link and open a portal.
The *channel* is wrong, even if the signature is not terrible.
He does not call IT. He does something more dangerous: he calls Isabella directly, to confirm.
Her phone rings once on your screen before you realize what is happening.
You have approximately forty-five seconds before she picks up and the entire operation collapses.
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**What do you do?**
- **Call Dane immediately and abort**: Cut the thread before she answers. You have been detected, but you can still leave the place without getting caught. You just have to destroy evidence asap....
[[Burn The Operation|Abort and burn the staging account]]
- **Have Dane intercept the call**: Maybe he can create enough noise to buy you time. But that's going to be risky; if you fail, this will lead you straight to jail.
[[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/Marc Calls Isabella|Have Dane intercept the call]]