Fraud Warning
Fraud Warning and Scam Alert
Individuals orchestrating frauds and scams use clever schemes to defraud millions of people every year. They often combine sophisticated technology with age-old tricks to get people to send money or give out personal information. They add new twists to old schemes including, at times, using the American Heart Association’s name or content.
Disclosure of Personal Information
The AHA recommends that you be vigilant and suspicious of any email that asks you to provide your email password, or sensitive personal information like social security number, credit card number or drivers’ license number. The American Heart Association will never ask for that information by email.
Product Endorsement
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association do NOT endorse products or services. Any claims that the AHA endorses a specific commercial product, process, service or enterprise are not true.
The American Heart Association may certify specific products or services that have met specific criteria. Please visit these links for more information on our Hospital Certification Program and Heart-Check Program.
Certified Trainers or Courses
美国心脏协会不认证其他组织创建的培训师，医生或培训课程。任何声称培训产品或材料已获得“ AHA认证”，“ AHA批准”，“ AHA合规”或“由AHA认证”的人创建的，“ AHA”意味着美国心脏协会，这是不正确的。
Fraudulent Solicitations
If you suspect telephone solicitations, emails or other communications are making fraudulent claims related to the American Heart Association or American Stroke Association, please contact us right away at 1-800-242-8721 orreportfraud@heart.org。我们还敦促任何接受虚假招标的人通过致电FTC致电：877-FTC-HELP或在线向联邦贸易委员会提出投诉ftccomplaintassistant.gov(link opens in new window), your state Attorney General consumer protection office, and local law enforcement.
Recent Examples of Reported Scams and Misrepresentations:
August 2021:美国心脏协会已使用该协会的名称和徽标向公司广告“ Keto Diet丸”发布了停止和停止信。我们已经将非法广告视为在线游戏和应用程序上的弹出广告。这是未经授权的用途。AHA不建议补充剂或药丸以减轻体重，也不认可产品。美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的官员警告说，饮食补充剂在销售之前不需要批准。官员敦促消费者注意这些警告信号：
- 例如，快速解决的承诺，例如“一周内减掉10磅”。
- 使用“保证”或“科学突破”一词。
- Products marketed as herbal alternatives to an FDA-approved drug, or as having effects similar to prescription drugs.
尤其是在饮食和减肥方面，如果听起来太好了，那么这是真的。不要被骗。
Email Phishing
It has come to the AHA’s attention that someone is posing as Nancy Brown and/or Meighan Girgus and contacting individuals to interview them for jobs. Please be aware that this is a scam. The person or persons are not Ms. Brown or Ms. Girgus, and are attempting to get your private information. In some instances, they may send you a check, asking you to cash the check and wire money back to them. Other times they are asking for personal information such as your social security number. The AHA will not contact anyone requesting personal information like account passwords, personal identification numbers (PINs) or Social Security numbers. Do not provide any personal or financial information to unknown individuals, whether by phone or email. Please seehttps://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0159-fake-checks(link opens in new window)。
AHA通常通过电话和电子邮件与申请人联系，而不是通过文本或即时消息服务联系。AHA将仅通过我们的LinkedIn招聘工具与已在线申请或通过电子邮件联系的候选人与候选人联系。
如果您认为自己是欺诈的受害者，请联系以下当局：
- 互联网欺诈投诉中心(link opens in new window)
- Your local Postal Inspector(link opens in new window)
- The Federal Trade Commission(link opens in new window)
了解更多信息国家互联网欺诈手表信息中心(link opens in new window)。
- AHA has become aware of people claiming to be from “the American Heart & Stroke Association” who tried to sell insurance to unsuspecting families. The sales person was very persistent and tried to gain entry to the home to provide “information” about the insurance.
The AHA does not sell or endorse insurance or any similar products. The AHA also does not pressure people into making donations or buying products. Particularly around holidays, potential criminals will try creative ways to get into a person’s home or learn about valuable items in their home. If you are concerned that the person may be legitimately raising funds for AHA, but are uncomfortable meeting with them, giving information over the phone or by email, or allowing them into your home, ask the solicitor to mail the information to you or leave it on your doorstep with a phone number and address where you can contact them later. If someone approaches you selling products that they claim are approved, sponsored or offered by the American Heart Association or American Stroke Association, promptly report them to your local law enforcement.
- 家s across the U.S. are getting automated calls from a company claiming to be American Senior Benefits. The calls urge seniors to get a free medical alert system, “as endorsed by the American Heart Association.” Apparently, after connecting to a live person, consumers learn that the medical alert system requires an ongoing monthly maintenance fee.
美国心脏协会并不支持公关oducts. In addition, we have not confirmed that anyone has ever received the product. There is a legitimate company called American Senior Benefits that is not making these calls. Both the “real” American Senior Benefits company and the American Heart Association have complained to the Federal Trade Commission.
- A number of websites claim to provide online training, including CPR training that is “AHA Compliant” even though the organizations are not American Heart Association-authorized training centers. These sites may claim to offer online training with no skills checks or instant electronic course cards available upon completion of the online training.
美国心脏协会不批准其他组织创建的培训课程，不允许将其课程完成卡提供给未完成美国心脏协会培训的技能检查部分的学生，并且没有“符合AHA的”培训课程或“认证”专业人员进行培训。成功完成AHA培训课程后，已获得批准在AHA徽标上发行卡的组织应显示“授权培训中心”徽标，以帮助您知道他们已获得授权。您应该向目前或准雇主核实他们将接受的课程完成卡，然后再向任何人付款旨在获得或保留您的培训状况的培训。
- We have learned of a website that advertised copies of training course exam questions with the answers for sale. The website turned out to be part of an apparent scheme to steal credit card information. We have reported the site to appropriate authorities. In another situation, people were discovered selling training course completion cards to individuals who had not taken the courses or demonstrated their skills. Several arrests were made after the scheme was reported to local authorities.
美国心脏协会不出售或允许其他人出售用于确认学生完成CPR，ACL，PALS或任何其他培训的实际考试。任何试图出售此类信息的人 - 或向尚未满足培训要求的任何人出售的课程完成卡 - 可能是非法的，并试图窃取您的个人或财务信息。
- Recently, an employer reported receiving a course completion card that looks like the one below. This fillable PDF card is a form completed on a computer and is not a valid Laerdal or AHA Training Center course completion card.
美国心脏协会的授权Training Centers will not send you an electronic course completion card that you fill in online. If you receive one of these, please report it to the AHA right away, along with any information you have about where it came from.