AI-generated scam emails targeting city applicants
Summary
Staff warned that scammers are scraping applicant contact info from online agendas to send convincing fake invoices demanding payment. The city will stop posting application forms online — still available by records request — after at least one applicant wired money to a fraudster.
At a glance
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Last discussed Jan 26, 2026.
Impact analysis
At least one applicant lost money to a wire-fraud scam; the city never requests wire transfers.
Applicants whose contact information will no longer be exposed on published agendas.
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