From SAM to SCAM? Trouble With Procurement Site: Chelsea Meggitt

March 23, 2023, 10:30 AM UTC

The latest hit to the troubled SAM.gov, or System for Award Management (SAM) Government Point of Entry (GPE), came when masses of users recently received suspicious emails that appeared to be phishing attempts from that email address.

The evening of Mar. 7 and the morning of Mar. 8 were much like every other moment since the launch of beta.sam.gov—frustrating. For several weeks leading up to the incident, users had been reporting errors when trying to renew entity registrations, a task that should take minutes for a small business to perform but has plagued the site from the beginning.

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