When someone in the Huron County Treasurer’s Office was tricked four years ago into changing the account into which a county bill was to be paid, $165,693 ended up in the hands of Nigerian hackers.
But Huron County wasn’t the only victim. According to federal prosecutors, the fraudsters who hacked into email accounts and then used intelligence they gained to send deceptive emails racked up “at least 600 victims” and reeled in “at least $120 million” before the FBI cracked the scam.
Three of more than two dozen people accused of participating in that scam went on trial Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Toledo on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering…