President of Stratford Soccer Club warns someone is sending scam emails in her name

Stacey Janzer · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 10, 2025 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 10

The president of the Stratford Soccer Club successful cardinal P.E.I. is informing parents of players that scammers are emailing requests for them to bargain acquisition cards.

"It's frustrating to cognize that someone's trying to instrumentality vantage oregon usage our nine to summation means that are not related to the club," Tara Ferguson told CBC News successful an interview.

Ferguson said emails were sent retired utilizing her sanction and a fake email address, asking that parents acquisition acquisition cards for committee members. She sent retired her ain email to the much than 900 members of the nine aft learning astir the request.

"We would ne'er inquire for that... it was not from america [but] idiosyncratic impersonating myself," Ferguson said. 

This isn't the archetypal clip that nine members person gotten mysterious emails. Last year, Ferguson said different scam email went retired asking that parents scope retired to the sender to speech astir something.

"I would privation parents to cognize that we would ne'er bash a generic email astir that," she said.

"If we're emailing, it would beryllium astir a circumstantial issue... We would give, like, our interaction accusation for them to telephone us, and not bash thing important via email."

Ferguson said the scammers are apt taking her sanction from the shot club's website and creating an email code that seems plausible. Real emails from the nine would travel from its long-established email address, not a generic 1 including the connection president with letters and numbers afterward, she pointed out.

"We would usage our registration system-generated email database due to the fact that it's truthful large and tin get everybody successful 1 e-mail. That's the way that we would usage to pass thing related to fundraising," she said.

Ferguson said they don't cognize wherever the emails are coming from, truthful there's not overmuch the nine tin do, different than inquire anyone who does get the suspicious email to interaction her personally, the nine oregon police.