Sep 28 / Admin

New Scam Alert: BEC Victim Lost $54K - Recovered Almost A Year Later

The Columbus Dispatch reported:

Shawnee Hills, a Delaware County village with less than 1,000 residents, was supposed to send more than $54,000 to a local paving company for a paving project in 2024.

But the village's fiscal officer, Shirley Roskoski, ended up sending that payment to a woman in California after someone shared her bank account information in an email message that appeared to be from the Strawser Paving Company in Columbus.

On Oct. 16 [2024], Roskowski sent a payment to that bank account.

Find the original article here.

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