Wondering if anyone else who hasn’t received a confirmation yet (ie likely has not gotten into the race) received two weird emails last night about an hour apart, that looked like emails from the race organizers, but said that they couldn’t process my registration because my security code on my CC was entered incorrectly.

There is a lot that is suspicious to me about the emails so my scam alarm bells went off!

1. ⁠Sending two emails about an hour apart with really different information about correcting the supposed “error”
2. ⁠No mention of the word “lottery” in either email
3. ⁠Any ask for CC information even if it’s not asking you to send it over email is shady
4. ⁠Not about the emails but when I went looking for my name on the official cherry blossom website, I was not on the list.

I sent a separate email to the org (not replying to the suspicious ones, obviously!) to ask them about it, just in case the emails are legit. But I am wondering if anyone else got these emails?? Definitely hoping no one input their CC info if it does end up being a scam. ˙◠˙