Posted on 03/13/2022 4:59:21 PM PDT by dynachrome
The city of Fresno lost about $400,000 in 2020 after falling victim to an electronic phishing scam, and former Mayor Lee Brand’s administration failed to disclose the loss to the Fresno City Council and taxpayers, The Fresno Bee has confirmed. Furthermore, the Fresno City Attorney’s Office in December 2021 rejected a public records request from The Fresno Bee seeking city communications regarding the fraud. The city told The Bee no records were located. However, The Bee recently obtained emails that existed prior to the records request. The electronic fraud was disguised as an invoice from a subcontractor working on the construction of the new southeast Fresno police station, Councilmember Miguel Arias told The Bee. The invoice included the subcontractor’s letterhead, and only the account numbers were different. A city staffer completed an electronic money transfer, not knowing the invoice was a fake, he said.
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LOL. I am cracking up. We are led by idiots.
Couldn’t possibly be the affirmative action squad.
I would guess there are several hospitals, airlines and police stations that quietly decided to go ahead and pay ransom when ‘something’ had all their data and would not release without a prompt payment in bitcoin. These examples are not ‘phising’, but there are many similarities in the total experience. Most goverment agencies have not yet caught up with protecting their data against unscrupulous, greedy and safely anonymous villains.
If the money is lost by a person in a position of trust or responsibility, not reported, then covered up, isn’t that called embezzlement?
/s
And I thought this was supposed to bee funny.
Wrong bee I guess
Idiots work at the Fresno Bee as well:
That was NOT a phishing scam.
The City of Fresno, my name is Amelda Nusbaum.
I won the $423 million dollar Power Frisbee Lottery.
I am giving $450,000 to the first three cities that ask me to
help them pay down their debt.
Send your request with you routing number.
We’ll be sure to respond quickly.
* * * * *
What do you think Louie? Think they’ll fall for it?
Dear City of Fresno;
Hi! We’ve been trying to contact you about your extended
warranty that’s expiring on your city’s vehicles.
Please send $450,000 to cover all your vehicles before the
offer runs out in 37 minutes.
I'm at the point now if I don't recognize the sender's telephone number, text message, or email, I delete 'em.
Fresno is pretty consistently run by Republicans.
Thanks. I know what you mean.
It’s tough keeping ahead of these folks.
I got caught in an IRS scam. Luckily it dawned on me, or I
would have been taken too.
Former mayor Brand was a “semi-conservative” (Fresno City Council is “non-partisan” when voting on the council seats/mayor)...Council member Arias is an “uber-lefty”. Fresno city council has been a dumpster fire for awhile now. New mayor Dyer is trying a cleanup but probably futile given the current partisan makeup of the city council.
Gov Gavin Newsom stole $1.4 billion in April 2020 to buy Chinese masks that never were delivered. It is his buy in to run for president just like Andrew Coumo stole $600 million for HUD when he ran it so he could run for NY governor.
I bet the Fresno theft was a inside job.
Didn’t know that there was more than one Bee.
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