I got an email from our Temple President this morning asking for my help “to assist a task discreetly” and asking me to reply by email because he was in a meeting. I wondered why he’d sent it to my Board address instead of my personal address, but I replied saying “sure, what’s up?”
Moments later, I got a request to “purchase 5 $100 Apple gift cards at any nearby store and I’ll reimburse you”.
Needless to say, I didn’t buy any gift cards.
If I’d been paying closer attention, I’d’ve seen this when I started writing the reply:
| On Aug 19, 2021 at 9:58:22 AM, President’s Name <randomstring@gmail.com> wrote:
randomstring@gmail.com is not the president’s email address, of course.
The scammer hit all of the published board mailing addresses this morning; I don’t know if I was the only one to start down the rabbit hole, but the Executive Director did send out a warning a few minutes later.
Speaking of scams and scammers, Diane and I filled out our California Recall ballots and put them in an official dropbox this morning. I’m proud to display my “I Voted” badge!
We get those spam emails at work all the time, from “my boss”. We had someone actually fall for it :x