Beware: The Bogus Bishop

As you might know my AOL email address book has been pirated twice. I'm not the only one. The same thing has happened to Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Perry of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Unsuspecting people have been bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars. The fraudsters are operating out of Nigeria. The last time my address book was pirated, they were also from Nigeria. Watch the news report from WLS, Chicago... 

The I-Team has learned that federal authorities believe Nigerian scammers are posing as Bishop Joseph Perry and by one estimate have stolen tens of thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting faithful. The bogus bishop's motive is money. The potential targets: anyone on the Internet, who has a Facebook account or uses email.

The Most Reverend Joseph Perry is one of Cardinal Francis George's right hand men and a South Side native who was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Chicago church in 1998 by Pope John Paul II.

Bishop Perry is a familiar face on catholic TV and the national chaplain for a prominent African-American priest association.


That very internet that Bishop Perry has touted to the faithful as a road to ministry took a troubling detour last spring.

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