Have any of you seen the scam yet where 'someone you know' emails you saying they were in another country and they got robbed or whatever and they are emailing asking for you to send them money so they can get home? I've gotten tewo of them in the past few months,one supposidly from an old customer I haven't talked to in years and another from the guy in charge of a Navy reunion association I am a member of. Both show up with the person's name correct as to who it's from but the email address is different than the real one. I knew both were fake and deleted both right away but I was just curious as to whether any of you had seen the same thing.
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Good friend of mine had his Yahoo account hijacked a couple of months ago. Hijackers changed his password so he couldn't get back into his account, then sent out e-mails to everyone on his contact list saying he was in England and he needed us to wire $1500 to him. Between him and his wife, they spent the next two days fielding phone calls from worried people asking whether or not he really needed the money. Luckily, no one actually sent any money, and it was particularly lucky as he's ex-Army and still federally employed, so he travels a fair amount and it COULD have been "real", had it not been that the hijackers obviously weren't capable of writing their request in proper English and anyone that knows him knew that he wouldn't just fire off a random e-mail asking for us to wire him money. Pays to keep your wits about you and independently verify the facts before sending money off into the blue, even in an "emergency".
Anonymous-0
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Not that it compares, in any way, to your situation, the spammers also have a new one, on Craig's list. They answer your ad, with an email that your ad is being flagged, then supply a link, to a bogus CL page, where they expect you to fill out everything, just like you are logging on to CL. Problem is, is that the spammers are harvesting your info, and will use it for their purposes!
rlp in Co.
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That happened to me too. Tell him to change his password. That fixed the problem for me.
Allen Goodman
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Same thing here. I've been getting e-mails from my wife with the viagra promotion several times before I asked her if she had something to tell me about our love life? She said everything was fine and why would I ask. I showed her the e-mails. Wasn't her's, she said, but sometimes wonder. Also my youngest son's e-mail has been hacked. Got an e-mail from him explaining how he became a Millionare. Knew right away it was hacked.
Anonymous-0
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My e-mail was hijacked and Yahoo had me get a new user account and password. My e-mail is working now but I can't access my old e-mail to retrieve my addresses and other info. Roy
Lou from Wi.
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NC WAYNE. Yep I get em all the time. Not so uch as request for $$$$ but for me to buy Viagra at a reduced cost. hAAAAAAAAAAAA ! Can you imagine me, a 75 year old washed up jazz piano player with Bi- lateral Neurophty wanting /and or using Viagra. ? Not on my wish list. I SPAM SPAM SPAM em. Wife and I both get a kick out of their ignorance. I would just as soon take up Bungee jumping.Sky diving with a moth eaten chute re- packed by RAY CHARLES playing on a GRAND piano with treble fish hooks embedded in the keys,swimming with Sharks in Chummed waters where the GREAT WHITES LURK, Walking through a mine field in Russia in January wearing tennis shorts and open toe sandals, Any way ,You get the picture. JUST SPAM EM, SPAM EM, SPAM EM. WORKS WELL FOR ME. Regards. LOU
ps. See what lack of sleep and pain killers do. lol.
ps. See what lack of sleep and pain killers do. lol.
about 2 mos. ago, before xmas. Hadn't heard from the real guy for a year or so was suspicious when he said "...as you know we were traveling in Germany...". He also made one grammar mistake that he shouldn't have but he is a WW II vet so maybe. Wife got same email on her different acct so that told the tale. Emailed'm that his acct had been broken into & the real guy answered. He reported it to police but it was very convincing. They got into his address book & sent dozens of requests for money to "help".
Anonymous-0
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Went around last year also. I have 2 yahoo email accounts (one I use for daily business and 1 seldom used for ads, ebay, etc) and got an email from myself saying I was stuck in Mallorca and needed help. Couldn't think of a better place to be stuck so ignored it. Had it've said france I'da been all over it and driving to pick me up :roll: .
I sent an email to everyone in my address books saying that I was fine and if I needed anything I would call. Then told my Mom and a couple of the older folks on the list that I would never call them to ask for anything (you gotta know my Mom).
Dave
I sent an email to everyone in my address books saying that I was fine and if I needed anything I would call. Then told my Mom and a couple of the older folks on the list that I would never call them to ask for anything (you gotta know my Mom).
Dave
MarkB_MI
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A lot of older folks are getting this scam over the phone. The call goes like this:
"Hello?"
"Grandma?"
"Is this Billy?"
"Yes! I'm in jail and I need help."
The scammer then convinces the victim to wire them money.
"Hello?"
"Grandma?"
"Is this Billy?"
"Yes! I'm in jail and I need help."
The scammer then convinces the victim to wire them money.
Last year a buddy sent an email to me mentioning this problem. The solution that he suggested was to make the very first contact in your email address book as AAAAAAAAAA.AAA. If someone gets in it supposedly will send one to this address since it is first and will come back as undelivered so the virus or whatever it is will not try to use your info again. In the year or so that I've had this set up I've only gotten one failure to deliver notice. I ran my antivirus and worm preventive programs and they showed nothing was there. I have not had any problems since then either so I guess it works.
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