Rick Warren Asks Flock to Target 'Unscrupulous Crooks'

Seven weeks after his youngest son killed himself, Pastor Rick Warren is toeing the line to normalcy.

Warren announced on his Facebook page that he and his wife, Kay, will attend their Saddleback Church on Saturday.

Warren had not attended a service since Easter weekend, when he preached several services and thousands celebrated the holiday at the Lake Forest church. The following Friday, April 5, Matthew Warren was discovered in his Mission Viejo home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 27.

Rick Warren shared that his son had struggled with mental illness since his youth. He has since established the Matthew Warren Foundation for Mental Health.

In addition to saying in his Facebook post that his family would be attending the early service on Saturday, although he will not preach, Warren used the opportunity to point out that "unscrupulous crooks are ripping off people and making money by asking for donations in the name of my son. They are all fake."

Warren, who referenced copycat sites previously on Twitter, said he has shut down 150 of the fake Facebook pages "but new ones keep multiplying daily."

Warren, whose "Pastor Rick Warren" Facebook page has more than 395,000 "likes," suggested three things in a post on Friday:

• 1st , Please "unfriend" any fake pages in my name that may have scammed you.
• 2nd Please "LIKE" this REAL page. This Pastor Rick Warren page is my only true, authentic Facebook page.
• 3rd, Please pass this request on to others who may have been scammed for money by a fake page pretending to be me.