Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Park City Episcopal church parishioners targeted by scammers four times in the last year

From Utah-

A Summit County Episcopal church wants community members to think twice if they receive a message asking for money after its parishioners became targets of a scam for the fourth time in the last year.

Rev. Charles Robinson said scammers used e-mail to impersonate him and ask parishioners for money the first three times. He said each time, the scam became more creative and sophisticated.

“What was really scary was the third time, the scammer had software that masked my exact e-mail address, even though it wasn’t being sent from me,” he said.

He said he became aware of the fourth and most recent incident last weekend after three parishioners alerted him about it. This time, the scammers masked his phone number and contacted them via text message.

More here-

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/park-city-episcopal-church-parishioners-targeted-by-scammers-four-times-in-the-last-year/

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