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Carney was drawn
into the simple hoax when he replied to an email believing that
he was talking to the head of the BoE's internal oversight body,
Anthony Habgood. A BoE spokesman confirmed the exchange.
The hoaxer emailed Carney on Monday to say the depiction of
novelist Jane Austen on a new British banknote made it look as
if the writer had just drunk a "bracing martini."
"I will drink the martini and order another two. Apparently that
was Eddie George's daily in take ... before lunch," Carney said
in one reply to the prankster who used the email address
anthonyhabgood@hotmail.com.
Carney also said he would check to see if he could accept an
invitation to a party, but the BoE boss shut down the
conversation when the hoaxer talked about the "rather dashing
bar ladies" he had supposedly hired for the event.
"Sorry Anthony. Not appropriate at all," was Carney's final
remark in the exchange published on Twitter by the anonymous
hoaxer who used the Twitter handle @SINON_REBORN.
The hoaxer claimed to have been behind a similar exchange
earlier this month with the chief executive of Barclays who
believed he was swapping messages with the bank's chairman when
he told him he owed him "a large scotch".
A BoE spokesman confirmed that the comments attributed to Carney
were made by the BoE chief but declined to comment further.
The exchange is an embarrassment for Carney who has warned of
cyber risks facing the international banking system.
The episode has echoes of another email slip-up by the British
central bank in 2015 when an aide to Carney inadvertently sent
comments to a newspaper about confidential research into the
economic implications of Britain's in-out European Union
membership referendum.
(Writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Richard Lough)
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