edops

Increasingly, charter school scammers are attempting to establish phishing connections via texting.  They will ask you for your mobile number by email or they will find that number online after seeing that you joined EdOps. 

A strong defensive move is to add the following phone numbers of leadership staff to your mobile phones so that it's easier for you to recognize phishing attempts by text. 

Everyone should add these phone numbers:  

*** Most often used in phishing

Please also consider adding these numbers:

Example of scammers reaching out by email, posing as Bryan Patten

Examples of scammers reaching out by text, posing as Dan Theisen

In these cases, Bryan and Dan were not hacked. Instead, the criminals used social engineering to find out that you work at EdOps and then searched the Internet and found your email or phone number. 

Emails and texts are annoying but harmless, as long as you ignore them. For phone texts, you may wish to go ahead and click the "Report Junk" link.