WARNING: Please beware email phishing scams
Phishing is a scam where fraudulent emails are sent to people in an attempt to trick them into revealing personal or financial information. There appears to have been an increase in such emails targeting non-profit organisations such as patient associations. Today we have been notified of a number of emails being received that claimed to have been sent by a member of the IBE Executive Committee. These emails are fraudulent and have nothing to do with IBE. When dealing with uninvited contacts from people or businesses, whether it's over the phone, by mail, email, in person or on a social networking site, always consider the possibility that the approach may be a scam. How to identify a phishing email Don’t trust the display name: A common phishing tactic is to spoof the display name of an email, i.e. make it appear as if it came from IBE. This fraudulent email, once delivered, can appear legitimate because most user inboxes only present the display name. Don’t trust this. Check the full email address — if it looks suspicious, delete the email. Don’t give up personal/financial information: We will never ask for financial information via email. If an email requests this information it [...]