I got one of these, but I deleted it along with the 20 or so that were more obviously scams. I agree that it was well done, but I was suspicious that the ABA would go the GoFundMe route for a staffer’s child.

Tom McCabe, Boise

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Denise Hughes deniseh449@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 11:43 AM
To: Heidi Ware
Cc: IBLE To Post
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Warning: ABA Scam email

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?

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.

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.

Did anyone else get this email?

~Heidi

Boise