Phishing scam costs Edmonton's economic development agency $375,000

Edmonton’s arm’s-length economic development agency says it fell victim to a $375,000 phishing scam in late December.
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation’s vice-president of corporate relations, Terry Curtis, said the organization appears to have been targeted.
“It is a standard phishing scheme that was employed to target us,” Curtis said in a Wednesday interview. “A third party was pretending to be one of one of our clients to get the funds.&rdquo