MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – It’s not just governments that are getting hit by sophisticated scams. Businesses also are increasingly at risk.
According to the Better Business Bureau, a contractor that is building a commercial property in Montgomery got an email from what appeared to be a Mobile-based construction company working on the project. The spoofed email – which exhibited no sign of fraud – asked for the Mobile company’s $785,000 payment to be sent electronically.
Evey Owen, vice president of the Better Business Bureau of Central and South Alabama, said the lead contractor denied that request because it had just sent a physical check. Owen said it is eerily similar to the fraud that cost the city of Mobile $14.7 million. The city sent the money to what it thought was the bank account of the contractor building Regions Arena…