The city receives thousands of emails a day, including a smattering of spam, phishing scams and other potential attacks, according to Arias. To address this, he said, the city in 2020 invested an additional US$10mil (RM42mil) in its information technology infrastructure. — Scam vector created by katemangostar - www.freepik.com
Fresno city employees wired a large sum of money, then another, thinking the funds were going to a contractor building a police station.
Those payments never reached the contractor.