[BCMA] Potential scam

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

We experienced that very same thing and fell for it to the tune of $400.  Received an email from (what looked like) one of our most visible members and supporters.  This very same supporter had just been writing back and forth with me about a matter related to the museum’s cabinetmaking.  When the fake email came in, it had the member’s profile name I had been writing with, and I didn’t pay any attention to the “@” portion.  Exactly like in your example, it said basically the same thing, so I didn’t blink when asked to help out “John”.  Just as completed the final reply, I realized what I had done.

I felt like a fool for a long time because I harped on my staff to not fall for this kind of email, then I fell for it, HOOK, LINE, and SINKER



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Lewis Bartholomew
Founder & Executive Director

mrbarth at alberniproject.org

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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields. 

 
Email is a non-secure form of communication and clients should not include any sensitive account information in any email to The Alberni Project. Le courriel n'est pas un mode de transmission securise et les clients doivent s'abstenir d'y inclure tout renseignement sensible sur leur compte dans toute communication electronique destinee a projet de Alberni. 

 With gratitude, we live and work within the Coast Salish and Salish Sea region - on the unceded traditional territories of K’omoks (including Sathloot, Sasitla, leeksen, Puntledge, Xa’xe, and Tat’poos), ɬaʔamɩn gɩǰɛ (Tla’amin/ Sliammon), Homalco, We Wai Kai and We Wei Kum, and Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group - traditional keepers of these lands. 

C'est avec gratitude que nous vivons et travaillons dans la région des Salish de la côte et de la mer des Salish, sur les territoires traditionnels non cédés des K'omoks (y compris Sathloot, Sasitla, leeksen, Puntledge, Xa'xe et Tat'poos), ɬaʔamɩn gɩǰɛ (Tla'amin/ Sliammon), Homalco, We Wai Kai et We Wei Kum, et du groupe du traité Hul'qumi'num, gardiens traditionnels de ces terres.










> On Mar 13, 2026, at 4:19 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello all at this address. The Telkwa Museum Society recently received some very believable emails under the name of someone well known in our community. If you would like to somehow share it with other organizations, it may be a good preventative. I am attaching the conversation copied from the emails for you to do with as you think best.
> 
> Many thanks for all that you do for Museums in general.
> 
> Linda Hanson
> Manager/Treasurer, Telkwa Museum Society 
> <TMS Scam.docx>_______________________________________________
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> Listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca
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