At an Assembly Finance Committee meeting Wednesday night, Rogers said it’s a strategy school district staff should have known about. Scammers used a similar method in 2019 to steal more than $329,000 from the city.
Piles of snow sit in front of the Juneau School District offices on Glacier Avenue on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. City and Borough of Juneau Finance Director Jeff Rogers outlined the incident inHe said someone claiming to be one of the district’s vendors asked to change their banking information. They used a “spoofed email address that varied slightly from the vendor’s last known email address,” according to the memo.
By the time the city’s finance department contacted the FBI, Juneau Police Department, CBJ Law Department and First National Bank of Alaska on Dec. 7, it was too late to recover the funds. “This particular scheme is very common,” he said. “You can’t listen to a webinar about fraud, you can’t go to a financial conference, you can’t step out your front door without hearing that this is really a very successful method for fraudsters to use.”The city has a risk fund for these kinds of events and could cover $250,000 of the district’s loss. But, according to Rogers, the Juneau School District hasn’t filed a claim with the CBJ Risk Manager or the city’s third-party insurers.
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