Brunswick County lost more than $4 million to a phishing scam in late 2020, and it has yet to completely recover.

According to court filings, between Oct. 16, 2020, and Nov 25, 2020, phishing scammers collected $4,026,180.07 from the county by mimicking the email address of a county contractor, TA Loving Company, but with extra hyphens in the domain name.

On Sept. 23, 2020, the scammers requested the county update TA Loving’s bank account information, which the county did. Over the next two months, four payments the county made to TA Loving for contractor work were instead rerouted to a PNC bank account belonging to the scammers.

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