Phishing Attack Steals Money Meant for HS Turf

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Courtland (Va.) High School has plans to install an eye-catching blue turf football field — but after a $600,000-plus payment was stolen, school officials are seeing red.

The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star reports that a scammer sent school officials a phony invoice for the installation of the field, part of a $1.2 million overall investment for the project. The school wound up wiring money to the fraudster instead of to the company that had actually performed the installation. Officials reportedly notified authorities immediately after learning they’d been had.

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