Authorities last summer seized more than $800,000 from the Houston bank account controlled by people accused of using online scams to defraud a construction management company, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani . A civil complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in late January alleges that the one or more unidentified perpetrators used phishing attacks or malware to gain access to the company email servers and accounts of the construction company in order to collect payments they owed to an engineering company the company was working with on a railway expansion project in California.
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