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.

IAMU has been made aware of emails, NOT originating from IAMU but pretending to be from IAMU. These emails contain malicious attachments and are being sent to members and to the general public.

The best course of action: Simply delete any email that is of questionable origin. IAMU is investigating the source, but often there is little that can be done about someone pretending to be IAMU from outside our organization.

If Something Looks Wrong, It Probably Is

IAMU has noticed an increased amount of fraudulent emails being sent to our members from outside of our organization. These emails are an attempt to defraud our members by using the IAMU brand as a segue. IAMU assures you that we have not changed our invoicing processes for either membership or training. If something looks wrong, it probably is. If you have any questions about any official correspondence from IAMU, please contact your primary point of contact within our organization.