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The past 24 hours has seen industry body Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA) experience an issue with potentially false invoices sent to member.

Early yesterday afternoon, the Adelaide-based organisation sent an email to members stating “we have have (sic) had reports of people receiving a false invoice phishing email.

“The email has a subject of either 'Invoice W15691' or 'Invoice WXXXXX', where 'XXXXX' is a series of numbers, and is being sent from finanace@parksleisure.com.au.”

PLA advised “while we investigate this matter, please do not open any attachments or click on any links provided.”

Later in the day, PLA, which has been registered as a private company since 1999, updated members “we have got to the bottom of the recent invoice billing. 

“Our web developers were conducting tests on our system on Friday 7 May which resulted in membership renewal invoices being sent early.”

The parks body went on to apologise “for any inconvenience caused”.

Image shows the email sent to PLA members.

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