CAUTION: Fraudulent texts/email messages sent with Rev Gail’s name asking you to run an errand …
Please don’t buy gift cards!
The texts/emails contact people and
ask them to quickly answer back,
run an errand, and then buy gift cards:
THIS IS FAKE, THEFT, FRAUD!
They’ll ask you to scratch off the bak to reveal numbers, and then send numbers only by text or email.
The scammer may also use other FAKE email accounts or numbers. DO NOT BUY GIFT CARDS and then fllow instructions to sceratchj pff the back and send the numbers only.They’re stealing fom you!
CALL Rev Gail if you have a question,
and don’t follow any email/text/message instructions
like this without speaking to Rev Gail personally first at her cell number.
Text me when you get this message
I have an errand I’d like you to help me with. — Gail Doktor
If you answer,the scammer will ask if you can help. Then ask yo to buy gift cards. then instruct yo to scratch the backs to reveal the numbers, and ask you to send the numbers only (not the cards) by text or email. They will steal the value o the gift cards by cashing them in online.
THIS IS NOT REV GAIL ASKING. They don’t have Rev Gail’s phone number or email, they’re using a fake account they’ve assigned to Rev Gail’s name to commit fraud. The church won’t ask you to do such anerrand in bulk.
If you have ANY QUESTIONS about the validity of a request, call Rev Gail’s cell: 978.273.0308 and speak ro Rev Gail in person!
EMAIL SCAM
Beware: the church has been alerted that a scammer is once again using local clergy identities, including Rev Gail, to contact people and ask them to quickly email back and then buy gift cards: THIS IS FAKE, THEFT, FRAUD! The church will not ask you to ‘secretly’ or quickly buy anything like a gift card, then send the actual numbers by email. This is STEALING during a season of giving. CALL Rev Gail if you ever have a question, and don’t follow any email instructions like this! Neither Rev Gail or the church will ever send an email asking you to buy gift cards in a rush, and then ask you to forward the numbers: someone is stealing from you if they ask you to do this. We have again alerted the police. Its an ongoing problem for clergy all over the country, whose names are being used to con generous people. The scammer is NOT using the church email or Rev Gail’s personal email accounts, by the way, but sets up fake accounts and assigns them to clergy names. Rabbis, priests, ministers and others have all suffered the same problem of having their reputations used to steal from people. PLEASE DO NOT respond to the email.