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Dear Synod of Mid-America Newsletter Recipients,
If you have received what appears to be an email from me asking you to purchase gift cards or anything else it is not from me. It is a scam. Someone got ahold of my email information somehow. It appears to be coming from an email address I don't use. This is a very prevalent type of scam online called phishing.
Please delete these emails.
Sorry for this inconvenience.
Chad Schuitema
***Also, in the future, here are some keys for identifying phishing emails:
- If an email comes to your inbox and says it is from me but the content seems "fishy", click on the email address and see if it is from my actual email - often the display name is correct but the email address is not. If you received this particular phishing email and did this, you would see it is not from me.
- If the need was so important, "Let me know at once" or "Call me ASAP", I would call you and not email you.
- The email is inconsistent with my usual style of emails.
These types of phishing scams happen all the time. However, please note this: my email wasn’t hacked, nor was your email hacked. The elements to both create this email and send it ‘from me to you’ can be found on the internet. Or perhaps someone picked up the contact list of someone else. We just don’t know exactly how it was done.
While email is a very valuable and necessary tool to communicate, you need to take precautions and be smart while online. Again, if you get an email like this, it's best to send a fresh email to the person you believe it is from and ask them about it - or to call or text them. Never respond to these types of emails.
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