An Alert from the Editor

Phishing Scams

The New York State Horseshoe Pitchers Association has been directly targeted by phishing scams. Using the names and email addresses of the association officers and directors, someone is circulating email messages asking for help in meeting a payment deadline.

The emails appear to be from one of the Association’s Officers (see graphic) but if you look closely at the email address – not just the senders name – you will see that the email address is fake. In this case the phisher uses the correct mailbox name, but the domain name email.com is fake. If you looked at it quickly, you may have read it as gmail.com which is a well known email domain.

The NYSHPA will NEVER send an email asking you to pay Association bills. For more information about phishing scams and how to spot them, check out What are Phishing Scams? article from the National Council on Aging.