Today, a lot of UVic employees received an email impersonating a chair/director/manager and trying to extort money. You can see a screenshot below. Clearly the sender is not internal, it is another “director” account registered at gmail for the sole purpose of scamming. Your director would not ask you for such a favour by using their gmail. Even better – you can confirm with your director/chair/manager that they would never ask for a favour like that by email.
If in doubt – try to find them by using another channel e.g. a phone call .
Note also that the scammer missed to capitalize “I” 3 times in that letter. Mistakes like that are common in scams.
