a technique very familiar to law enforcement’ In such schemes, an attempt to defraud a person or business or in this case the county government into sharing sensitive information such as credit card numbers or passwords via email, a phone call, or text message, for what is seemingly legit, and is allegedly from a trusted source like a bank partner or vendor or online retailer is often how scammers are successful. Once the fees are transferred or payment is made to a likely overseas account, it’s a lot less likely the funds will be recovered or returned, “Gateway Fiber and Lincoln County are aware of a recent cyber fraud incident affecting our joint efforts to improve broadband connectivity in the region. We take security very seriously and are working with cyber security experts to investigate, mitigate the impact, and prevent future occurrences,’’ said John Meyer, Gateway Fiber chief marketing officer. When scams like this happen, one question that is always asked is what protocols were in place? Referring to the county’s checks and balances system. Commissioner Joseph Kaimann says the county has “a pretty good system for what we do right now’ but remains open to potential changes pending the outcome of the current insee