BARTON COUNTY – Law enforcement officials in Barton County continue to investigate an expensive email scam.

In May, $48,600 was erroneously transferred from the Treasurer’s Office to a bank in Georgia in an email scam.

Officials have recovered $34,360 of the money that was lost and were hoping that insurance would cover an additional $14,000.

According to Administrator Richard Boeckman, EMC Insurance has notified the county that they were not covered for the loss.

Last year, the County took out a policy with EMC that included a cyber solutions data compromise coverage, which gave Boeckman hope that the new policy might cover such a loss.

The insurance covered a computer breach. This was a scam.

The $14,239.30 will be taken from the general county budget.