Beware for possible SPAM/SCAM emails from groups posing as the Washington County Chamber of Commerce.

This type of practice is called phishing, where malicious organizations try to gather information and sometimes money from unsuspecting victims. Most of these messages try to draw the recipients in by claiming that they have received something from the organization but that they only have a certain amount of time to retrieve the file, document, or prize.

In 2020 alone over 200,000 people in the United States were victims of phishing which ranged from extortion, payment without delivery, personal data breach and identity theft. If any residents receive an email that looks like this, do not open. All emails from the Chamber of Commerce will come from the email @washingtoniowa.org.