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Grand Forks Public Schools Loses $2.2M to Phishing Scam

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dissent

Joshua Irvine reports:

The business manager of Grand Forks Public Schools said Monday the $2.2 million swindled from the district earlier this year was taken in a phishing scheme.

[…]

In the four days leading up to the Sept. 13 fraud event, the district’s business office made more than a thousand payments, according to records obtained via open records request. Most of these transactions were payroll for the district’s approximately 1,600 employees.

Two of the largest transactions were a pair of payments to contractor Construction Engineers Inc., in the amount of $621,864.66 and $2,302,741.

Read more at GovTech.

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