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Topic: Scam !! |
Jim Horan
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2010 10:27 am |
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| I don't know where to post this, But someone has gotten in my Email account. Has sent numerious emails from my contact list saying I am stranded in Europe and need money. If any of you recieve this Email, ignore it. I am in Calif. and doing fine. Thanks, Jim |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Nov 2010 10:37 am
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Jim, would you pm me the email address please? I have received several emails from obviously a musician, offering meds for sale. Just wondering if it's the same one.
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 15 Nov 2010 3:30 pm
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Jim,
I recieved an e-mail from my niece last week, that, stated the same thing. I got in touch with her via her cell phone and she told me that someone had hacked into her aol account and was flooding all her contacts with the same info. She cancelled her account. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 Nov 2010 2:59 am
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| This happens all the time. They haven't "hacked" into your e-mail account. It's coming from someone's PC that has your e-mail address in their address book. That person's PC has been infected and it just randomly selects an e-mail address from that person's e-mail address book and sends the garbage using that e-mail as the originator. |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 16 Nov 2010 8:04 am
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Jack, if they do it this way, wouldn't they have to find out the password belonging to that email address?
Even if I have someone's email address in my address book, I cannot use this address to send emails. Maybe there's something I don't see here...
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Allan Munro
From:
Pennsylvania, USA and Scotland
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Posted 16 Nov 2010 8:10 am
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I just got an email from a 'serving soldier' in Iraq who wants me to help him get a load of cash out of the country. He must be a really clever guy - he managed to get an email address in China to hide what he is up to.
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William Lake
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 16 Nov 2010 9:00 am
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I get tons of these scam eMails but the first prize goes to my daughter who got a scam mail from a WOMAN who wanted to give all her money to charity cuz she was dieing of prostrate cancer. Very rare 
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2010 6:12 pm
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These are Nigerian 419 scams. I have been fighting Nigerian scammers off for several years now; keeping them off this forum via my Nigerian Blocklist. Before that they were sending scam letters to members trying to sell stuff on the SGF. Now, they mostly can't even view the posts on the forum, much less respond to them.
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 19 Nov 2010 7:34 pm
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| This happened to me....from my aol account....I changed my password and that remedied it........ |
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