$23,000 of Donor Money. Wired to a Scammer Pretending to Be Your Pastor.
Criminals target organizations built on trust. They know your staff wants to help. Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar stolen from your mission—and the people you serve.
$100+ million stolen from nonprofits and churches annually. Trust-based cultures are easy targets.
Your Culture of Trust Is Their Weapon
No IT department. Staff eager to help. Limited verification procedures. Criminals know exactly how to exploit this.
Pastor/Director Impersonation
"I'm at a conference—please wire $23,000 for an emergency grant." The email looks like your pastor's. Your bookkeeper wants to help. But it's a scammer targeting your mission funds.
Gift Card Scams
"Buy $2,500 in gift cards for families in need and send me the codes." Your compassionate staff falls for it. The "families in need" are criminals in another country.
Vendor Payment Redirect
Your "building contractor" emails with new bank details for the renovation project. You send $45,000 to the new account. It wasn't your contractor.
Fake Donation Overpayment
A "donor" sends a $15,000 check and asks you to wire $10,000 to another charity. By the time the check bounces, your $10,000 is gone.
It Happens Fast
11:15 AM
Email arrives from "Pastor Mike" while he's at a denominational conference: "Emergency situation—a family needs help immediately. Wire $23,000 from the benevolence fund to this account. I'll explain when I'm back."
12:30 PM
Your office manager processes the wire. The email looks right. Pastor Mike helps people all the time. She doesn't want to bother him during his conference.
9:00 AM
Pastor Mike returns. He never sent that email. The sender was pastor.mike.church@gmail.com—not his real address. $23,000 of benevolence funds—gone. Stolen from the families you serve.
What ForwardToSafety Would Have Caught:
- • Email from gmail.com, not your church's domain
- • Display name spoofed to look like Pastor Mike
- • Urgency + wire request + "don't contact me" = classic BEC pattern
"Our executive director was 'traveling' and emailed asking for $18,000 in gift cards for a partnership emergency. Our bookkeeper forwarded it to ForwardToSafety first— spoofed sender, classic scam pattern. That was money our food bank needed for families."
— Board Chair, Regional Food Bank
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