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Mary E. Sullivan, President
WINTER 2023 SCAM ALERT:
Do not share personal information with unknown groups Hundreds of CSEA members
to scam members into quitting and phone calls, mailings and home numbers. Members are advised to have reported recently getting
providing personal information. visits from unknown groups. Also, continually monitor their financial emails and receiving postcards
When it comes to clicking members should not click on links statements.
unknown links or providing that supposedly give an option CSEA officers and activists on
in the mail from unknown,
personal information, CSEA to unsubscribe from emails, as the front lines are increasingly out-of-state entities asking them to
click links, scan a QR code or fill
members should always be unsubscribing would in fact verify seeing this suspicious activity. suspect. Legitimate companies the email as valid. Once these groups get personal out postcards with their personal
and organizations will never ask “If someone on the phone is and financial information, there is information and mail them back.
Some of these mailings are
members to quit our union. asking you to no telling how or where they will fraudulently labeled with a return
CSEA
quit your union, use it.
address as “CSEA President” –
Director
it’s a scam. Acquario noted a few ways
Stop right there that scammers have targeted
these mailings are NOT coming
of Member
from CSEA.
Engagement
and hang up,” union members. These groups Adam
said Acquario. may use members’ information or This correspondence is coming
from anti-union organizations that
Acquario
“They have likenesses in future mailings or
are trying to scam CSEA members
advised
even hired
advertisements, and possibly even members to
out-of-state
steal one’s identity. The scammer into quitting our union. These
may also promise to pay members organizations are also seeking
never give their
actors to visit worksites and
members’ personal information.
personal information to unknown
homes.”
a check for quitting our union – entities, to not sign anything or
that will never arrive.
The postcards and emails are
CSEA members should also
loaded with misleading statements,
not give to unknown groups
mail their information to another
Victims may unknowingly end and these groups are using divisive
their financial information such
state or organization and to not
up being removed from our union respond to any suspicious emails,
without even knowing it.
methods and clever schemes to try
as bank account or credit card
This isn’t just an attack on
our union, but an attack on CSEA members and their livelihoods. These groups are determined
to go after our union-protected Beware of
contracts to lower wages, cut benefits, eliminate pensions and leave CSEA members without scam artists!
proper representation. Together, we will make sure that doesn’t happen.
For more information, CSEA members should contact their labor relations specialist or region office, and/or call our union’s Member Solutions Center at 800-342-4146 or visit cseany.org/scam-alert.