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Related: About this forumOnline scammers stole $350,000 from wife of Florida Gov. Rick Scott
Online scammers attacked the personal email account of the wife of Florida Gov. Rick Scott on two occasions and robbed her of $350,000, the Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday.
The email account of Ann Scott was hacked in 2012 and 2014 and both incidents were connected to Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the newspaper reported.
The investigations included the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, Google and an IP address in Nigeria, home of many email scams.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed that in 2012, scammers used a fake email address to fool Ann Scotts accountant into sending two wire transfers worth more than $349,000 to bank accounts in Miami and Australia, the Times reported.
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/online-scammers-stole-350-000-from-wife-florida-gov-rick-scott/WMYxufdUz1D4wFdFGiuTMO/
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)?
TexasTowelie
(112,321 posts)to check whether they complied with the federal requirements for reporting that account.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)lpbk2713
(42,763 posts)Scott will be pulled and prodded by the IRS over what is essentially small change.
Fullduplexxx
(7,866 posts)Girard442
(6,081 posts)I mean, if she has a successful business and that's all normal in the course of a month's transactions, well then OK. Why do I think this is not the case?
unc70
(6,115 posts)That is still a large amount solely on an email request.
Nitram
(22,843 posts)that into new accounts without verification. Or is Scott's wife scamming the IRS?
packman
(16,296 posts)Damn, I should have kept those e-mails from that Nigerian Prince - they were classic in their pleas for money.
onethatcares
(16,177 posts)her accountant did it because they added an extra "n" to her name in the email.
Would you hire the accountant or his firm?