Cybercrime investigators searched a South Carolina home in a nationwide effort to track down suspects they say stole more than $206,000 from a Florida school board.
Federal agents this week searched the Greenville home of a man who has been indicted in the scheme to defraud the Sumter County School Board in Bushnell, Florida.
The FBI has arrested two other suspects at their homes in Detroit and Puyallup, Washington.
Prosecutors say the crew used a website to trick a school board financial administrator who was trying to log in to the board’s accounts with Alabama-based Regions Bank. The screen said the website was temporarily unavailable, and redirected to an alternate site.
The “alternative website is indicative of a technique used by hostile cyber actors to access victim bank accounts,” FBI Special Agent Dustin Reid wrote in an affidavit.