grocery chain Supervalu Inc. earlier this year was conned into depositing more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts before it discovered the ruse.

Supervalu obeyed e-mails telling it to transfer payments to new bank accounts.
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On Feb. 26 and 28, , the company received two fraudulent e-mails — one purporting to be from an employee at American Greetings Corp., and a second supposedly from an employee at Pepsi­Co Inc.’s Frito-Lay Inc. unit. Both of those firms are approved Supervalu suppliers, according to the filing.

Both fraudulent e-mails sought to get Supervalu to send future payments to new bank accounts.

Between Feb. 28 and March3, Kilgroff’s filing said, Supervalu deposited more than $6.5million via multiple wire transfers to an HSBC Holdings PLC account listed in the fake American Greetings message.

And on March 2, Supervalu said it made eight separate wire transfers totaling $3.6 million to First Security Bank in Rogers, Ark., as requested in the second e-mail.

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