IMPORTANT INFORMATION from Father Wayne:  (updated 7-6-22) and then also Mrs. Flexer (9-1-22)
             HERE WE GO YET AGAIN !   Several parishioners hade once again been contacted  (supposedly by Father or Mrs. Flexer)  by email. 
   This time,  one message was requesting one's help to purchase an Amazon gift card and email it to a "daughter of his friend". 

It may have been initiated with this email  :

"Subject: Checking In!
How are you doing?
I'm just checking in with you and I hope all is well with you? I can't call for now, that's the reason why I emailed you. Actually, I need a favor from you. I'd appreciate if you could email me back when you get this ASAP."

Heed this consumer alert:
https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/07/worshipers-targeted-gift-card-scam
      Such emails are scams.  It seems the parish AOL email account may have been hacked into in July and Father's address hijacked.  In bothl instances, the return address "looked" similar,  but the reply went instead to a hotmail account.   
  That should serve as a red flag!

See                                                                                                        https://www.amazon.com/giftcardscams/b?ie=UTF8&node=15435487011&fbclid=IwAR2lm9RJr06lEgt_D4XC0ohfgBX03bP4s_CWmiuLHt0XMneNGVISda4IKV8
 
 Father  previously related after a separate text msg incident in May:      Please know, yet again, that I would never text anyone about such matters.         PLEASE do not respond via a direct reply to any such texts or emails. 
Call  the parish or compose a separate direct email to their legit email address to ask if the communication is valid.  Should the culprits be discovered, Father will insist authorities deal with the individual and stop this nonsense.   
         These incidents have been reported and are being investigated by law enforcement!