Important Announcement:During the past few days (beginning on Saturday, September 1, 2007), many Toastmasters have received a fraudulent e-mail purportedly sent from
seller@toastmasters.org with the subject line: Big sell off from Sep to Christmast Day.
The e-mail was not sent from Toastmasters International.
It contained a request that the recipient follow a link to what appeared to be a legitimate Toastmasters page. On this page, personal information was requested, including detailed credit card data.
This illegal practice is called "phishing." For more information about phishing and how to identify this type of fraud and other internet fraud, visit this link on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site:
http://sec.gov/investor/pubs/phishing.htm .
To the best of our knowledge, the only information taken from Toastmasters International was a list of e-mail addresses from online store customers.
If you submitted your credit card details via the phishing scam, your credit card information may no longer be secure and we advise that you contact your bank(s) as soon as possible.
Our security team is continuing its investigation in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
As additional relevant information becomes available we will provide it on the Toastmasters Web site.
Note: The timing of this fraudulent e-mail is not associated with the transition to the new Toastmasters Web site. You'll receive an e-mail when the new site is launched: one section of the site will be for the general public (
toastmasters.org) and another specifically for members (
members.toastmasters.org). The fraudulent e-mail is entirely unrelated to the new Web site.
Donna H. Groh (via
newsletters@toastmasters.org)
Executive Director Toastmasters InternationalP.O. Box 9052Mission Viejo, CA 92690-9052949-858-8255
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