On January 13, 2016, two outgoing wire requests were sent to a shared email account used by the Albuquerque, New Mexico accounting center — one for $70,429.90 and the other for $125,175.

Robin Overmyer, an extraordinary assistant in the Albuquerque accounting center, noticed the two outgoing wire requests in the junk mail folder. The two requests appeared to be sent from an escrow officer at a branch office in New Mexico.

Robin contacted the escrow officer to let her know she needed to send her outgoing wires to the new email account established for receiving outgoing wire requests. Her response was, "What wires?" She had not sent any wire requests that morning.

Robin was very concerned. She printed the outgoing wire requests and reviewed them. There were several different type fonts used on each request form, fields were empty and incorrect information was input in some of the fields.

Also, the wire requests were signed by two check signers that work in different office locations. The time printed at the bottom of the wires was also two hours ahead of the Albuquerque time zone. It all looked very suspicious and Robin was sure it was an attempt at fraud.

She called the accounting center in Arizona to make sure they had not received the outgoing wire requests. They had not. She forwarded the wire requests to the accounting manager for her reference. That way if they did receive the same outgoing wires, they would not process them.

For her keen sense of wrongdoing, she saved the Company from a potential loss of $195,604.90. For her efforts she has been rewarded $1,500 and a letter of recognition from the Company.