{"id":10989,"date":"2017-04-13T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:57:41","slug":"the-line-city-of-albuquerque-targeted-in-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/the-line-city-of-albuquerque-targeted-in-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line: City Of Albuquerque Targeted In Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1h6iQSYNQCs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>April 14, 2017 \u2013 The city of Albuquerque fell victim to a scam that caused $420,000 in taxpayer dollars to go to a fake construction contractor.<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/albuquerque-news\/albuquerque-scammed-by-fake-construction-contractor\/4447808\/\">KOB Eyewitness News 4<\/a> reported that they had warned the city of a similar scam targeting a mass transit project in El Paso, but Albuquerque officials insisted it would not happen here due to strong checks and balances already in place<b>. &nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gene Grant and the Line panelists debate how cybercriminals get past such checks and balances and discuss what the city might do going forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Line Panelists:<br \/>\n<\/b>Janice Arnold-Jones, former state representative<br \/>\nAndy Lyman, NM Political Report<br \/>\nSophie Martin, attorney and editor of DukeCityFix.com<br \/>\nDan McKay, reporter for the Albuquerque Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 2017 \u2013 The city of Albuquerque fell victim to a scam that caused $420,000 in taxpayer dollars to go to a fake construction contractor.&nbsp; KOB Eyewitness News 4 reported that they had warned the city of a similar scam targeting a mass transit project in El Paso, but Albuquerque officials insisted it would&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529],"tags":[18,750,610,1154],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-line","tag-albuquerque","tag-city-of-albuquerque","tag-mayor-berry","tag-scam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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