George is working as a divisional manager for Dragon Eggs Inc. when he is approached by an executive from Lanister Manufacturing and offered a job. Lanister Manufacturing is keen to hire George because he has decades of relevant experience in the Dragon business. George accepts the job with Lanister, gives notice to Dragon Eggs Inc. and commences employment with Lanister Manufacturing in January.

After working with Lanister Manufacturing for nine weeks, George is out of the office on a sales call visit when he receives an email on his company cell phone from the President of Lanister Manufacturing, Mr. Tence. In the email, Rump asks George to purchase ten iTunes cards each worth $300 for a customer email promotional blitz. Mr. Tence tells Geroge to immediately email him with the activation codes. George thinks the request is odd, but as he is new to the organization he is keen to be diligent and helpful. George quickly responds by email to Mr. Tence that he will do as he asks as soon as possible. George copies his immediate superior, Donald Rump, on the email. While he is in between appointments, George manages to run into a store to buy the cards.

After buying the cards, George replies to the email and sends the activation codes to Mr. Tence. Mr. Rump is also copied to the email.

The author of the email is quick to respond and asks for the names and emails of the customers that George has visited that day. George sends him the information.

The next day, George receives an email from Mr. Tence addressed to the whole company. The email says that early the previous week the company became aware of attempts to use a phishing scheme to scam employees using President Tence's name and an email address that was similar to company email, but was in fact fraudulent. Tence's email warned the employees to be aware of this risk.

George sits down at a desktop computer. He opens up his email and looks at the original email he received from Tence. Using the larger screen, he notices that what he had thought was an email from Tence was not actually sent from an official Lanister company email address; the email address contained additional characters suggesting that it was a phishing scam. He realized that the author of the email was posing as Lanister company president and that it was actually fraudulent.

George tells Tence what happened, and explains that he has charged $3500 in iTunes cards to his personal credit card and that he also responded to the scammer with names and emails of customers. George is immediately fired for disclosing private customer information. Tence sends an email to the whole company advising that George was fired for incompetence.

Does Lanister Manufacturing have a claim against George?