$11.8 million transferred from MacEwan accounts in phishing scam
MacEwan University staff were tricked into transferring $11.8 million into scammers’ bank accounts in what one expert said is among the largest publicly disclosed phishing scams.
The majority of the money, $11.4 million, has been traced to bank accounts in Canada and Hong Kong and has been frozen as the university pursues its options in the courts.
“We are fairly confident that we will be able to recover those funds, the $11.4 million,” MacEwan spokesman David Beharry sai
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