More than $600k returned to Ketchikan borough after cyberscam investigation

More than $600,000 was returned to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough last week after the borough’s bank, Wells Fargo, successfully retrieved an accidental Electronic Fund Transfer that the borough made to a fraudulent account earlier this year.

Charlanne Thomas, the borough’s Finance Director said that in May, the borough was notified by Wells Fargo that it potentially sent money to a fraudulent checking account at Citibank after attempting to pay for the Dudley Field turf project. The contractor’s email account had been hacked by the scammers who requested payment be sent to a different checking...