Scammers try to access confidential information on members and employees by sending official-looking emails requesting data Turner Last year one of Jim Turner's trade association clients approached the IT consultant with a problem he hadn't seen before. Several association employees had received an email claiming to come from the group's president. The sender wanted the association's membership list. The email was fake, an example of a common Internet scam known as "phishing." But it was unique in that it specifically targeted an association. "So the perpetrator had an understanding of what trade associations do," said Turner, CEO of the IT services firm Hilltop… Read More