In accordance with section 11.6(7) of the Code of Iowa, The Office of Auditor of State is to be immediately notified of any suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities.  The Auditor recently learned of amounts a City paid email scammers posing as vendors and determined it is in the public interest to issue this Alert to help prevent other governmental subdivisions form falling victim to the same circumstances.

In January 2020, the Auditor issued an Alert regarding unknown parties which had attempted to fraudulently misdirect state and local governmental entities in Iowa into issuing payments by posing as vendors.  A copy of the Alert can be found here.

Read the full notice from the Auditor here.