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A 55-year-old Calgary man is facing charges related to a multi-year investigation into a $54,000 email scam, police say.
On March 3, 2022, RCMP officers received a fraud complaint from a local business on 118 Street in Fort Saskatchewan saying the CEO’s email was hacked and used to request payment for an invoice over $54,000, police said in a Wednesday news release. Hours later, the company realized it had been scammed, as the funds were deposited into an unknown account. The hacker then tried to make a second similar request, which police said tipped the company off to the fraud.
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