A Knights of Columbus phishing scam involves fake e-mails and texts pretending to be from Knights of Columbus State & Local Officers or Clergy, requesting monetary transfers and gift-cards. To avoid being scammed, make sure you are checking the sender’s e-mail address. Often they are using a burner Gmail account with a bunch of numbers in the address (indicating that they have likely created hundreds of e-mails to scam with).
This past weekend members of our council received an e-mail from someone pretending to be our council’s Chair. You could tell that it did not come from his official e-mail. It came from vlas99084@gmail.com
Our council never gives nor transfers money without the body voting on it at our monthly council meetings. So if it isn’t moved, seconded, discussed, approved, and on the books, you are out of luck sir.
Jesus told us to be fishers of men, not phishers of men. If you want to become a Catholic Christian (repent of your scammy ways and be Baptized), then join the Knights of Columbus, attend meetings and propose your council to give you the money you were trying to scam for.
If you are desperately in need of help, there are organizations (including the Knights) who may help you, but you have to be humbled and not one who chooses to do evil.