Online scammers stole $350,000 from wife of Florida Gov. Rick Scott

[TexasTowelie]

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 Scott’s 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]

1. ...a bank acct in Australia?

?

[TexasTowelie]

2. It would be interesting to the tax returns

to check whether they complied with the federal requirements for reporting that account.

[Lint Head]

3. Rick Scott robbed Medicare. Karma

[lpbk2713]

6. For a hell of a lot more.

Scott will be pulled and prodded by the IRS over what is essentially small change.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Didnt rick scott steal more than that from medicaid

[Girard442]

5. 'Scuse me, but what is the Guv's spouse doing making 6-figure wire transfers based on an email?

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]

7. Email was sent to her accountant requesting transfer

That is still a large amount solely on an email request.

[Nitram]

8. Definitely a case of having too much money if your accountant just needs an email to wire sums like

that into new accounts without verification. Or is Scott's wife scamming the IRS?

[packman]

9. IP address in Nigeria??

Damn, I should have kept those e-mails from that Nigerian Prince - they were classic in their pleas for money.

[onethatcares]

10. but according to the TampaBayTimes

her accountant did it because they added an extra "n" to her name in the email.



Would you hire the accountant or his firm?