CTR Announcements

Be careful of donation scams, petitions and surveys

Online and text scams continue to increase, especially during the holidays when you may be considering online charitable donations.

Action steps:

• For any request for donations, validate via the official charity website.
• Verify personal donation sites such as GoFundMe pages that may be spoofed or fraudulent.
• Go directly to your PayPal or Venmo page to log in, not through a redirect, since you may be redirected to a site that can steal your login credentials.
• Be careful of Facebook, YouTube and other online surveys or petitions that can collect your data or have malicious malware that can infect your phone or other devices.
• Update your passwords for banking and money apps right after you make your holiday donations and finish shopping for added protection.

See our CTR Cyber page for more cybersecurity internal controls and contact [email protected] with any incidents or suspected incidents of fraud or cyber threats or if you need support from our Statewide Risk Management Team.