$710G recovered after phishing scheme targets Nassau comptroller's office

Nassau officials have recovered $710,000 scammed out of the county comptroller's office in an elaborate phishing scheme, Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder announced at a news conference Friday. Comptroller officials contacted police on Oct. 25 to report that they had been scammed by an organization pretending to be an existing county vendor, Ryder said. Credit: News 12 Long Island