City of Portland recovers $6.7M from phishing scheme

The city of Portland announced Friday that it has recovered the $6.7 million dollars it sent to a person posing as a vendor on the $2 billion Bull Run water filtration project.

Portland rolled out a new vendor management system earlier this year. In February, a person posing as a real vendor sent an email to the system asking to change the vendor’s bank account information.

The person eventually convinced an employee to send a link that allowed them to reset the vendor’s payment information…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS