Thanks for the warning. I haven’t seen a message as you described.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

> On Nov 29, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Heidi Ware heidithebirdnerd@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve reached out to ABA about this, but wanted to share the info about this scam ASAP, and also see if anyone else got this email?
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> I received an email pretending to be the ABA, asking for money for one of their staff members: a GoFundMe page for a sick baby named Arick. Unfortunately the links provided seem to lead to an anonymous PayPal account, and the photo of the baby used is swiped from a news story in Texas.
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> Normally scam emails are easy to spot. This one was not caught by my spam filters, and was actually fairly convincing and well written, using official GoFundMe and ABA logos.
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> Did anyone else get this email?
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> ~Heidi
> Boise
>