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Email scammers prey on COVID-19 generosity and fears to get money, gift cards

05/11/2020 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

  Reminder: Bishop Larry Silva will never email or otherwise contact you to ask that you buy and send him gift cards, money or gifts. Recent emails circulating to local Catholic churches, schools and diocesan employees are pretending to be the bishop or perhaps another church official. The phishing emails usually ask the recipient to […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Bishop Silva, COVID-19, phishing, scams, spam

No, the bishop is not asking you to get him iTunes cards

11/01/2018 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Phishing emails target church workers in the Diocese of Honolulu By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Marvin Samiano was worrying about the threat of incoming Hurricane Lane and at a medical appointment at Queen’s Medical Center on Aug. 23 when he checked his work email. One in particular caught his eye. It was from […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: email, Local News, phishing, scams

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