I've been contacted by: Kyle Elliott [mailto:Kyle.Elliott@faithlife.com]
in reference to the contest and getting some kind of prize. I'm wondering, because it's not on what one would consider "normal" Faithlife stationary !!!
Was this an email? If so I would not expect stationary.
Have you contacted Kyle?
Well, Kyle Elliott is the Logos employee that posted the blog post about the YouTube contest. He's a relatively recent hire (three months) and is their Social Media Coordinator. And that is indeed the standard form of a Faithlife employee email address, so it's probably legit.
Did you enter the contest? Was this email informing you that you'd won a prize? Or was it just an advertising email encouraging you to enter so that you might win a prize?
And there's no official format or "stationary" (background color/signature line, etc.) for Faithlife employees to use in their emails.
I hadn't contacted her, she's contacted me. Actual several times since I'd posted this. I'm currently "gun shy", just lost a powerhouse system thru something similar !!!
Then I guess I'm about to win me a Spurgeon Commentary: Hebrews edition :{))) Praise the LORD !!!
I hadn't contacted her, she's contacted me.
Kyle is normally a man's name, and in this case, he's definitely a guy.
It's good to be cautious. But unless he's asking you for remote control of your computer, or asking you to send him your credit card number or social security number or other private info, it doesn't have the marks of a scam.
I have never heard of anyone impersonating a Logos employee to scam people. I suppose it's possible, but Logos is such an unknown company in the grand scheme of things. If scammers are going to try to take advantage of people, they will pretend to be from some large nebulous organization that it would be hard to check up on: the IRS, Microsoft, Amazon.com, etc. Or some fake company that doesn't exist. Or some unknown tech support company who claims they've found something wrong with your computer. Not likely that they'd pick a real Bible software company to impersonate.
It is odd that you could have won this Spurgeon commentary without even knowingly entering the contest. If I were you, I'd email Kyle and explain that you are confused about why you've won this. No harm can come to your computer from emailing a person. He'll explain. Either it's a mistake, in which case you'll feel better in your conscience knowing you've sorted it out. Or you were just randomly selected among users to win this, in which case indeed Praise the Lord!
Oops :{))) Him sorry. I had entered the contest and posted a good number of videos, though only about my normal numbers. Am a prolific "pusher" of Logos and share as much a possible.
OK, good. It was not clear from your initial post. You seemed completely mystified as to why you might have been winning this book and you suspected the email might not be legit. I would say your scam detection meter is set a bit too sensitively. You might want to ratchet it back a notch. [:-)]
And congrats for winning!
BTW, are you any relation to Karl Barth?
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