Melvin Lowe, 53, scammed the money out of the DSCC in 2010 by
getting a printing vendor to send the committee a
fake invoice and then forward $ 75,000 of the cash to himself.
«
Invoice phishing», a term for when a scammer sends hundreds of
fake invoices with the intention that one slips through the cracks and accidentally
gets paid by over-worked finance teams, has proven both costly and effective.