Beware Email Scams – January 2020
Attention!
Do not fall for email scams asking for a favor using the minister’s name with a made up email. A creative but ill-intentioned person or network is using clergy names to send emails from created email addresses to ask for gift cards. You may get an email that sounds something like this:
Good morning,
I need a favor from you
Email me as soon as you get this
God Bless
Rev. Karen Gustafson
When you respond, they give you a story about someone they need you to send gift cards to. This is a scam. Do not fall for it. You can report these through your email:
We appreciate you letting us know that this is happening and are grateful that so many are recognizing this as a scam. However, it is difficult to respond to the flood of emails and texts asking about this. Please know we regret that this is happening and there is little we can do to prevent it. If you can report or mark the email as phishing, that is helpful. If you’d like to report the incident to us, you can use the contact form on the website at https://ucevanston.org/contact/