Anyone else get a suspicious email from Denny Foust?

[Chris Pile]

I just got a strange email supposedly from Denny Foust.... It says he's out of the state, and asked me to buy some gift cards to benefit a Covid-19 charity and he would reimburse me later.... Sound fake as hell?

[raidmagic]

Yeah, that's a scam for sure.

[rockne10]

Don't expect Denny to mix any outside causes, righteous or not, with his responsibilities to SDC and its members.
He keeps those things personal.

[Lou Van Anne]

As Treasurer for our local chapter I get those about once a month......they come in our chapter President's name.

[Chris Pile]

It had his correct email addy, but also said he would have called me but he didn't have access to his phone right now. I figured it for foolishness, but posted just in case someone else had gotten it.

[StudeRich]

The Scam emails I have gotten from other "Friends" always get the name on the email address wrong, Capitals or not etc. NOT how the person does it.
If the Title is misspelled or not something they would say, it's a sure sign of a Foreign Scammer.

Also, you can put your Cursor over the Name on the email, and usually it will show the Real senders Fake address, not what the Faked visible one says.

[showbizkid]

These are absolutely false - please don't ever fall for one of these. Anyone asking you for gift cards for any reason is a sleazeball spammer.

[Avantidon]

Chris, Denny's address was incorrect as the IP part was wrong. I have received many of these in the past from others and the first thing I do is check the ip part of the senders address. This is a common SPAM message received by many virtually daily. By the way thank you for being willing to return as the Kansas RM for another two years.

[jclary]

The funny thing about the "reasoning behind these spam attempts"...as if being out of your state would prevent anyone from buying a gift card.

[Commander Eddie]

The funny thing about the "reasoning behind these spam attempts"...as if being out of your state would prevent anyone from buying a gift card.

Yeah. They don't sell them in the Antarctic.

[creegster]

It had his correct email addy, but also said he would have called me but he didn't have access to his phone right now. I figured it for foolishness, but posted just in case someone else had gotten it.

Its very easy to "spoof" an email address, and make it seem like its coming from someone you know. The same holds true for banks and other financial institutions. As a result, I never click on links in emails I receive (such as "your bank has a message for you, click to login"). I always type in the website url manually and then go to see what they want to make sure its legitimate.

[BobWaitz]

Bumping this back up to the top. I received an email for the same scam again yesterday claiming to be from our chapter president. I'm the chapter secretary so my email address is on our chapter website. Same for all the board members and at least one of them got the same email. Even though the name was correct, the return address was not.

So be careful. They keep trying!

[Chris Pile]

A current officer in the Midway Chapter got an email from another Midway Chapter member today with the same scam. He claimed to be president of the chapter (not for at least 5 years now), and they were asking for gift cards to benefit families suffering from Covid. I advised her to simply delete it. She thought it should have been reported, and I told her - you just did, to me.

[6hk71400]

That is the latest twist. I got one from another chapter president and knew is was fake. It seems when they lock on a name, it continues to be used with just the wording changed to fit the latest reason for the scam. So once the COVID dies down, it will be replaced with another reason for gift cards. Also, the traveling person is robbed and lost all money and identification. It can be in the USA or the one I got was from someone claiming to be in Europe. The person they claimed to be was older and taking care of her husband and had not traveled out of Arizona for years.

Bob Miles

[Dwight FitzSimons]

A scam that I ran into recently involved ebay. They said that they were changing their method of payment and "needed for me to update my info." They then asked me for my SSN and date of birth " to identify myself (or some such wording)". I have been buying and selling on ebay for 15+ years, so why would I need to identify myself? Their URL looked legitimate, but, needless to say, I didn't give that info to them.
-Dwight