[Fuusm-l] Fwd: [CER Presidents] New Phishing Attempts for Directory Information

[Vic Elam]

All,

Please be aware of this phishing scheme.

Vic Elam, President, Board of Trustees

When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his concern, man is
caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only
when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and
live with humility and reverence.   - William O. Douglas


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From: Beth Casebolt <BCasebolt at uua.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Subject: [CER Presidents] New Phishing Attempts for Directory Information
To: CER Presidents <cerpresident at googlegroups.com>


Please let your folks know that we have recently become aware of Phishing
attempts to gain access to your online church directory (if you have one)
or to gain information about members by posing as someone from the
congregation.

They often come to members from a “board member” or a staff member asking
them to send them information to update in the database. They are in fact
from spoof accounts (you can tell if you scan over the email address and
see what pops up). As you know staff and board members are often listed on
websites and so are easily found via a search. From there one would merely
need to spoof the email to make it look like it was from one of those
persons.

In one case the phishing email asked for a copy of the directory.

In any case, it is wise to let your members know that this isn’t how you
would ask for information and before responding to any such email to please
confirm the request from the person is presumably came from via a different
method - call them, text them or send them an email that is new and not a
reply.

If you have questions let us know.

*Beth Casebolt, CRE* :: she/her/hers
<https://www.uua.org/lgbtq/identity/personal-pronouns>
CER Communications Consultant and Operations Manager
740-232-9048

Schedule a meeting with Beth Casebolt  <https://calendly.com/bcasebolt>

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