secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. (SCIA)
CIK:        0000830616
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-10T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-012363
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

SCI Engineered Materials reports $898,325 imposter scam and bank fraud, investigation ongoing
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- Fraudulent scam of $898,325 executed via bank fraud; company detected and reported immediately.
- Management contacted financial institution, filed IC3 report with FBI, and is working with insurance carrier.
- No evidence of additional fraud or unauthorized data/system access found to date; business operations unaffected.
- Investigation into incident and impact on internal controls remains ongoing.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/830616/000110465926012363/0001104659-26-012363-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/830616/000110465926012363/scia-20260210x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-012363

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