The digital world we are living in has great opportunities to interact and communicate for all of us. However, is also needs our literacy. This is true for digital maps, but this is very much true also for our default communication means.
Unfortunately, fake emails are sent out in the name of ICA, and especially in the name of the President Georg Gartner. Those mails ask eventually for money transfer, claiming that there is some kind of urgent situation.
Such emails might be seemingly sent from the email address president@icaci.org, but if you check the header of the e-mail you can reveal the real sender of the fake e-mail (e.g. presidentgl2023@gmail.com; it can happen that other similar email addresses have also been used).
Beware of scam mails (Graphic by Mohamed Hassan via pxhere.com)
If you are suspicious about a mail you receive in the name of ICA, please
- Check the header of the e-mail and find out if there might be other sender addresses.
- Be ensured, that an ICA representative like the president or the Secretary-General will not ask for money, support, help in personal, private occasions ever.
- Double check by contacting the president and/or secretary-general or ICA webmaster right away.
- Please do not react on the email, if there are attachments don’t open them unless you can be absolutely sure (see points above).
- Please delete the email.
We have tried to identify several means on helping with this, but unfortunately, we cannot fully avoid fraud and criminal energy like this, and it is very unfortunate that the ICA President’s name is misused in this way.
Georg Gartner
