[GCARC] I did not email you asking for Apple gift card numbers!

[Tony Starr]

It never ceases to amaze me the efforts that these scammers will put into
trying to get over on unsuspecting victims. If they only would put a
similar effort into a legitimate enterprise, they might end up being the
next Apple or Instagram. But no, they choose to be cyber thieves instead.
It's a sad state of affairs that we have to deal with in the 21st century.
The advancement of technology has NOT improved the quality of the human
race.

... de K3TS


On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 10:39 PM Jon Pearce <jonathanwpearce at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Just got a phone call from one of the club members who had received an
> email from "Jonathan Pearce, President" asking him for a favor, and when he
> responded he was asked to buy some Apple gift cards, scratch off the
> numbers and email them to "me".
>
> Uhhh - no. I've seen that scam before.  The scammers scrape an
> organization's website, find the president's name and then send emails from
> that name to anyone else who's email address they can find, thinking that
> they'll find some suckers who will do what the "president" requested. If
> you've received one of these emails it may be entertaining to see how long
> you can string them along (I think I got one scammer for a couple of days
> once) but - hey - I'm NOT going to ask you to send me gift card numbers!
>
> I don't know how widely the email list was distributed so unfortunately I
> have to send this to the entire club. (I previously thought it was just
> Board members and alerted them but the guy who called me wasn't a Board
> member.) If you've been contacted with the scammer email please let me know
> so we understand how widely our email list has been compromised.
>
> Fortunately the scammer was asking for Apple gift cards.  If "I" had been
> asking for gift cards to Marino's Pizza I'm sure it would have quite
> credible to many Saturday clubhouse attendees...
>
> 73 de Jon WB2MNF
> The REAL President, GCARC
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