Don Griffing realized something was wrong when he received a text from a fellow Rotarian asking: “Is this really you?”
The question was about an email that appeared to have been sent by Griffing asking for help, but the wording seemed off. As a retired software developer, Griffing immediately suspected he was being impersonated by a scammer trying to swindle money from his network and alerted his contacts not to respond to the request.
His suspicions were bolstered when he learned that another Rotary district leader had likely crossed paths with the same scammer requesting Amazon gift cards. “I’m a retired IT person; I’ve been down this path. I know what to do. But I still had that little bit of a pit in the stomach, an ‘OK, here we go again’ kind of thing,” says Griffing, a past governor of District 6270 who lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
This wasn’t Griffing’s first or last brush with fraudsters.
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https://www.rotary.org/en/fend-off-financial-fraud
