[TheForge] Fwd: Central Office email was hacked

[Dave Mudge]

Thanks Bruce, I was wondering if the e-mail was bogus or not.
Never thought to check the sender's address.
thanks,
dave m
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:39 AM Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> See the sender's address: Frank Van Pelt at ABANA.org.
> Bruce
> NJ
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:46 AM Kim George <klgeorge at kent.edu> wrote:
>
> > but it doesn't say which central office.
> >
> > On 5/14/19, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > See attached message.  I almost got stung by this.
> > > Bruce Freeman
> > > NJBA
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Frank Van Pelt <frankvanpelt at abana.org>
> > > Date: Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:18 AM
> > > Subject: Central Office email was hacked
> > > To: <freemab222 at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > >     The Central Office email was hacked this morning. All the emails
> that
> > > were sent out were responses from a previous emails. If you have
> received
> > > any email from the Central Office with an attachment and a message that
> > > says Zip: password 123 - Please do not try and open attachment. This
> is a
> > > Trojan that  a hacker is trying to infect your computer with. We are in
> > the
> > > process now of changing passwords, I took JoAnn's computer offline so
> no
> > > one can get access to it, and reached out to our server provider for
> > > extended help on this matter.
> > >
> > >      Please accept out humble apologies on this matter.
> > >
> > > Frank Van Pelt
> > >
> > > Central Office Admin
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