Supervalu becomes victim of e-mail scam

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/10/20/supervalu_becomes_v
ictim_of_e_mail_scam/

Supervalu becomes victim of e-mail scam
Grocery chain wired $10m to phony accounts
By Associated Press  |  October 20, 2007

BOISE, Idaho - Supervalu, one of the nation's largest grocers, has fallen
prey to an e-mail scam, losing about $10 million after wiring money to
fraudulent bank accounts, according to federal court filings.

The scam is detailed in a pair of forfeiture cases filed under seal this
year in US District Court for the District of Idaho.

The fraud began after the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based supermarket received two
e-mails - one from someone purporting to be an American Greetings Corp.
employee and another claiming to be with Frito-Lay, according to court
documents. Both e-mails claimed the companies wanted payments sent to new
bank account numbers.

Supervalu sent more than $6.5 million to the phony American Greetings
account and nearly $3.6 million to the phony Frito-Lay account before
realizing it was all a scam. The FBI was able to capture the money before it
was whisked away by the scammers, but now American Greetings, Frito-Lay, and
Supervalu have all laid claim to the money and US District Judge B. Lynn
Winmill will decide where it should go.

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