Tenino mayor says city was scammed out of $270,000 last year
The town of Tenino, Washington. (Wikimedia Commons)
There have been several cities scammed out of money in the last couple of years, and, of course, the Employment Security Department in Washington state supposedly had scammers steal $650 million. A scam recently hit the city of Tenino, which allegedly lost $270,000 to fraudsters last year.
“The details are still forthcoming, and I have to be careful about how much I say because there’s still an open investigation with State Patrol and the FBI,” Tenino Mayor Wayne Fournier told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show. “But as far as I understand right now, it started with an email where somebody created a fake email that looked like an official email.”