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Phish report: Using alum class email groups for gift card scam

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Date Sent: Monday March 24th, 2025 at 6pm 

From: [Name]' via Class-1969 <class1969-g@mtholyoke.edu

Reply to: outlook.com email address (not the actual email address of the purported sender)

Subject: [Impersonated Alum's Name]

 

Initial Message

Hi       

Do you've a free moment over email now, I need a little favor from you ?

Please email me back if you do!

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Follow up Message to people who engaged

Glad to hear back from you, I've been trying to purchase a $300 DoorDash email gift card in $100 denominations for my friend whose birthday is today, unfortunately she is down with stage 4 mesothelioma cancer, She had lost both parents to the disease (COVID-19. and I'd promised to get the gift card for her today but I have not been able to do that because my bank said they were having issues charging my card and would take a couple of days to get it sorted, Please can you help me get this from your end, I'll send you a check later today once my bank sorts the issue out. Let me know so I can send you her email address and the link to purchase the gift cards.

Thanks,

[Name]

Sent from my iPhone