Iowa credit union becomes unlikely warrior fighting overseas scams

In the intractable fight against America’s online scam epidemic, there is one unlikely place where efforts to fight back appear to be making an impact.

From her office in Dubuque, Iowa, Jill Gogel has been doing everything she can to combat the scammers plaguing her customers. Fraud has become, in her words, “an everyday occurrence,” and last year, the FTC reported that victims nationwide lost…