As a charity trustee, I’m certainly no stranger to being targetted by dishonest people. Individuals regularly pay for their insurance or gym membership by setting up a Direct Debit using the charity’s bank details and companies never check; they just take the payment. It happens so much that we’ve had to disable Direct Debits on the account.
But I was, well, impressed is the wrong word, but certainly noted the attention to detail that a recent scam attempt had taken.
I received the following email:
Hi Chris and HNY,
How are you?
Can you arrange a payment today by bacs ? Let me know so i can send
you the Recipient details.I look forward to getting a quick email respond.
Thanks!
Best regards.
Laurence Eccles and Dr Chris Hassall
I’m the current treasurer of West Yorkshire Humanists, and Laurence and Chris are the co-chairs of the group. So, this sounds like a legitimate email. But it’s from an anonymous gMail account, who had I responded, would have almost certainly asked me to pay a large amount of money to an account they control.
They have clearly targeted us individually, though, researching the name of the committee members and setting up the appropriate fake email.
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