Officials reported that the county paid out $447,372 in a series of nine payments to a fraud scheme claiming to be an approved county vendor in late 2019. The county’s net loss was more than $216,000.
Staff at Bernalillo County's accounts payable department became the dupes in a fraudulent "confidence trick" in late 2019 by paying out $447,372 to what they thought was an approved county vendor.
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