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Pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky duped Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into speaking with them. Clips of the video conversation were posted online Thursday by a pair of Russian comedians who have done the same thing to other world leaders. A spokeswoman for the central bank confirmed that Mr. Powell spoke with someone in January who misrepresented himself as the Ukrainian president. Pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky duped Federal…

FRANKFURT -Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an ECB spokesperson said. "We can confirm that there was an attempted cyber incident recently involving the president," the ECB spokesperson said. "It was identified and halted quickly. No information was…