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City of El Paso duped out of $3.3 million in phishing scam

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Dissent

Brenda De Anda-Swann reports:

The City was “duped” and “robbed” of millions of dollars intended for the streetcar project, a source with knowledge of the investigation told ABC-7.

During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, city officials revealed a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city out of about $3 million by using a phishing scam.

Read more on KVIA.

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