Report: Local company duped out of $50,000
by Kim Sloan, Staff Writer
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The Fairbanks Co.’s building on Division Street. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
The Fairbanks Co.’s building on Division Street. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
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A representative from the Fairbanks Company, 202 N. Division St., Rome, said the company sent $50,000 to a vendor in China but later found out the vendor’s account was compromised, according to Rome police report.

According to the report:

The company representative said he had received an email updating the vendor’s bank account. About $50,000 was transferred into the updated vendor’s account noted in the email.

But officials with the Chinese company said their email account was compromised and they did not change their bank account number.

Rome police detectives told the Fairbanks representative that since the money went to China they would not be able to prosecute the crime.
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