A summer resident of the Boothbay region has notified the newspaper that “our summer network are receiving false Paperless Post invitations asking for personal information that makes the recipients vulnerable to being hacked."

A check of the Paperless Post website revealed the following:

“Recently, we’ve seen reports of phishing emails pretending to be Paperless Post invitations. These fake messages are designed to trick you into sharing your login credentials for your email account or other sensitive accounts. The messages are often sent from the email addresses of people you may know who have already had their own email accounts compromised.

These phishing emails are sent entirely outside of Paperless Post’s platform, so we do not have a way to stop them from being sent. Your security remains very important to us, so we’ve put together a few quick tips to help you spot a real Paperless Post message:

Quick Checklist

• No login or download required. You can always open a Paperless Post invitation directly.

• No attachments. We never send .exe, .pdf, .msi, or other downloadable files. Only embedded images.

• For emails: sent from an official address. Check the list of verified emails below.

• For texts: link pp.events. Text links start with https://pp.events/, or are sent from our verified RCS business profile