A new email phishing scam is targeting parents of students with EZSchoolPay.com cafeteria accounts.
Over Easter weekend, parents who added funds to their students EZSchoolPay.com accounts received an email claiming to be from the company. The email told parents their children were required to pay a tax of $0.85 for the school year. The tax was supposedly a "sugar tax" to help fight child obesity.
When parents click on the provided link, they are asked to submit Social Security and credit card information. This information is then used to open accounts and make purchases to existing credit lines.
No parents appear to have fallen for the scam in the Lancaster, PA area where the scam was first reported.
While the scam does not appear to have worked in Lancaster, that often is not enough to deter con artists. Other school districts may begin seeing similar phishing emails before the end of the year.
Anyone who receives an email asking to pay a fee or tax for school lunch programs in their area should contact their local authorities. Do not provide any information or click on the link.
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