- Dates
- 2024-12-04 – 2024-12-10
- Kind
- Public warning
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- cybersecuritygovernancehealthcarepublic-safetycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In December 2024, Beaver Island forum notices warned of impersonation emails using “remittance advice” subjects and names associated with St. James Township and the Beaver Island Rural Health Center. The warnings told recipients not to open the messages and clarified that the named officials did not send unsolicited remittance emails.
Evidence limits
These are direct institutional warnings and are strong evidence that the organizations considered the messages fraudulent. The archive does not contain email headers, a technical investigation, confirmed victims, financial loss, or law-enforcement findings.
Sources
- A post warned that an email impersonating the St. James Township treasurer used a “November Remittance Advice” subject and said the treasurer does not send unsolicited emails. BIRHC later warned of a similar message impersonating its managing director with a “December Remittance Advice” subject. These are first-party institutional warnings and establish the reported messages and advice not to open them; the archive does not preserve headers, recipients, financial loss, or law-enforcement findings.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 18 · t018342
- A post warned that an email impersonating the St. James Township treasurer used a “November Remittance Advice” subject and said the treasurer does not send unsolicited emails. BIRHC later warned of a similar message impersonating its managing director with a “December Remittance Advice” subject. These are first-party institutional warnings and establish the reported messages and advice not to open them; the archive does not preserve headers, recipients, financial loss, or law-enforcement findings.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 18 · t018348
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township and BIRHC warn of impersonation email scams, 2024”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-remittance-advice-email-scams-2024/, accessed [date], citing “SCAM” and “SCAM Continues...BEWARE!”, Beaver Island Forum, December 4 and 10, 2024, topics 18342 and 18348..
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