Article 20EA7 El Paso city bungs $3.2m to email crooks pretending to be bosses

El Paso city bungs $3.2m to email crooks pretending to be bosses

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After keeping quiet for days, the city of El Paso, Texas, has finally admitted that it has fallen prey to "CEO fraud" emails that saw scammers funnel $3.2m from the authorities using bogus invoices."

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