Learn to Spot a Fake Email — Free, and Made for You

Six short lessons for church staff, volunteers, and anyone who does not live in email like I do. No account needed. Just press play.

1. 1What is an email, really? It’s a postcard, not a sealed letter.How email actually works, and why the “From” field can say anything the sender wants.
2. 2How do scammers fake being someone else? Wearing a mask.Display-name spoofing, lookalike domains, hacked accounts.
3. 3What are they actually after? (Hint: it’s not always the money.)Passwords, mailbox access, donor and member data, vendor banking-change scams, pastor gift-card scams.
4. 4What does a phishing email look like? The anatomy of the trap.Red flags: mismatched sender, urgency, borrowed authority, odd requests, suspicious links and attachments.
5. 5Something feels off — now what? Verify before you trust.Don’t act inside the email; verify through a channel you already know; report it; no shame in false alarms.
6. 6What should we do as a team, always? When in doubt, call.Dual approval for financial changes, a published “leadership will never ask this way” policy, regular refreshers.

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