Harrisville, Michigan, became a victim of a Nigerian e-mail scam that has been making it's way around the planet for the last couple of years.
The town's treasurer fell for it and supplied the scammers with the town's bank account numbers, leaving him holding a very empty bag. The total cost: $186,500 in lost pensions, municipal operating funds, and other essential city resources. Now investigators believe that as much as $1.2 million may be missing from the county as well.
He lost $72,000 of his own money as well.
The former treasurer is up on embezzlement charges, but it won't bring their money back.
I think this is one of the first times that an entire city has fallen victim to this e-mail scam. What a disaster!
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