EMAIL HACKING ALERTR
Dec 2, 2020 16:23:54 #
Hey Guys heads up on a Email hacking. Here is how it happen.
Wife got an email from what looked like her cousins address. Everything looked legit.
Sender said he needed $ 400.00 for a gift in the form of a gift card and he will send her a check.
She responded by asking a question and the sender gave specific instructions.
She emailed who she thought was her cousin that she can not afford the $ 400 and never heard another word.
Today she starts getting responses concerning her illness and what does she need the $ 400 for.
By responding to the person he somehow got her email password and is sending out request in her name.
So something is going on with a scam / email hack. Really know who you are responding to is a must.
Wife got an email from what looked like her cousins address. Everything looked legit.
Sender said he needed $ 400.00 for a gift in the form of a gift card and he will send her a check.
She responded by asking a question and the sender gave specific instructions.
She emailed who she thought was her cousin that she can not afford the $ 400 and never heard another word.
Today she starts getting responses concerning her illness and what does she need the $ 400 for.
By responding to the person he somehow got her email password and is sending out request in her name.
So something is going on with a scam / email hack. Really know who you are responding to is a must.
Dec 2, 2020 16:46:56 #
plumbob wrote:
Hey Guys heads up on a Email hacking. Here is how ... (show quote)
This was on our news last night but a different variation. The scammers hack an email account and send emails to various addresses asking for you to do a favor such as purchase a gift card and send it or the code on the back to the originator of the email. It may be from who you think is your boss or a family member or friend. Somehow they mask their real email address. They can also do it with phone calls making it look like another number. Some really fine people out there.
Dec 2, 2020 17:21:02 #
My wife worked retail and one of their big deals was Western Union. She probably helped prevent hundreds of people from sending Western Union Money to scammers. She educated all her employees to ask the right questions to those wanting to send money to someone they didn’t know. Most were elderly that could not afford to do it. My mom who is in her 90’s is always saying she wished she could help a grandson or a nephew but didn’t get their name just a a code or number to send it too. She finally knows to just hang up.
Dec 2, 2020 17:30:52 #
Dec 2, 2020 17:36:49 #
plumbob wrote:
Hey Guys heads up on a Email hacking. Here is how ... (show quote)
Ya some people need to get a job instead of stealing it from honest people
Dec 2, 2020 18:17:41 #
Paul britton wrote:
Ya some people need to get a job instead of stealing it from honest people
Yeah Paul, a job or a beating. I'd prefer the latter.
Dec 2, 2020 18:52:20 #
FourchonLa. wrote:
This was on our news last night but a different variation. The scammers hack an email account and send emails to various addresses asking for you to do a favor such as purchase a gift card and send it or the code on the back to the originator of the email. It may be from who you think is your boss or a family member or friend. Somehow they mask their real email address. They can also do it with phone calls making it look like another number. Some really fine people out there.
Yep same scenario, wonder where its coming from and how they got her contact list i have no frigging idea.
Dec 2, 2020 19:27:51 #
plumbob wrote:
Yep same scenario, wonder where its coming from and how they got her contact list i have no frigging idea.
It pays to change your email password periodically as you never know which website you visit can be hacked.
Dec 2, 2020 19:55:18 #
Dec 2, 2020 20:24:55 #
I wish I could find where these scum live. There's a lot of desert here in Wyoming that no one has ever been.
Dec 2, 2020 20:33:34 #
Egghead wrote:
I wish I could find where these scum live. There's a lot of desert here in Wyoming that no one has ever been.
If you find them give me a call. Have backhoe - will travel.
Dec 2, 2020 22:18:14 #
I had similar on my phone, text about earning money, they'll send a check and say you can keep over a certain amount, send the rest back to their address. Notified the police with their phone # last time I heard from them I said the law is onto you now, never another word
Dec 2, 2020 23:51:52 #
Egghead wrote:
I wish I could find where these scum live. There's a lot of desert here in Wyoming that no one has ever been.
Maybe Jimmy Hoffa has.
Dec 3, 2020 01:52:05 #
Big TC
Loc: Raytown, MO.
Egghead wrote:
I wish I could find where these scum live. There's a lot of desert here in Wyoming that no one has ever been.
They live overseas.
Dec 3, 2020 05:08:00 #
Egghead wrote:
I wish I could find where these scum live. There's a lot of desert here in Wyoming that no one has ever been.
YUP.
I feel the same way. Snake and cougar...coyote all need a treat now and then.
If a Cousin sent you an email....call their poor needy soul before ever anything else....Just MY 2 Cents.
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