Nigerian scammers once targeted the EPA to steal $1 million in office supplies

Tim Boyle/Getty Images Foreign hackers in a former British colony targeted hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees in an email phishing scam to steal office supplies with credit cards. The case was closed in 2014 when a Nigerian man pleaded guilty to buying $1 million worth of office supplies using stolen credit card information from EPA employees, but EPA special agent Al Bailey sat down to discuss the case in a podcast. “Back in 2012, a fellow law enforcement agency conta...