A scammer stole more than $269,000 from the Juneau School District last fall. Someone claiming to be one of the district’s vendors asked to change their banking information, then took the money, according to a memo shared this week.
Piles of snow sit in front of the empty Juneau School District offices on Glacier Avenue in Juneau on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. City and Borough of Juneau Finance Director Jeff Rogers outlined the incident in He said someone claiming to be one of the district’s vendors asked to change their banking information. They used a “spoofed email address that varied slightly from the vendor’s last known email address,” according to the memo.
At an Assembly Finance Committee meeting Wednesday night, Rogers said it’s a strategy school district staff should have known about. “I think we have been in contact. Have we made all the final decisions related to this? We have not,” Weiss said. “And the board has a planned executive session on Tuesday to have this very conversation, and that was scheduled when Jeff Rogers submitted his memo to the Assembly.”
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