Ottawa city treasurer transfers $130K to email fraudsters
Published Tuesday, April 9, 2019 9:13AM EDT
In the email, someone posing as Kanellakos asked Simulik to wire transfer nearly US$98,000 – or approximately CAD$130,000 – to pay a city supplier. After several email exchanges with the fraudsters, Simulik agreed to send the funds to a U.S. bank account later that day. “This happens thousands of times with billions of dollars around the world with very sophisticated corporations,” Kanellakos told reporters in Ottawa on Monday. “Our treasurer was a victim in this.”
It’s also not the first time the City of Ottawa has been targeted in this type of scam, the investigation found. In the spring of 2018, the city treasurer received a similar email that was identified as a fake, but it was never reported to the city’s IT department or the auditor general’s office. Hughes’ report also said Ottawa police didn’t investigate the incident even though they were called in to assist.However, one month later, Ottawa police were notified by RCMP that the U.S. Secret Service had arrested a man in Florida who is suspected of being connected to the scam.
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