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Post by jerrymc on Feb 10, 2011 22:16:00 GMT
Folks
I got a Tel. call tonight from someone that i used to correspond with, many yers ago, in canada. He informed me that he had received an email from me [ using my old Hotmail address], begging for some help financially, since I had fallen on hard times. He was pretty sure that this was not so....but just wanted to alert me.
I immediately went to try to log into the account, to have it shut down, but...lo and behold, the password has been changed. I am now in the process of trying to work through Microsoft to ensure that this happens.
Times are bad....but I am not that desperate!!!....so if any of you folks [ who may have been in my "Contacts"] get a similiar message....be sure to delete same, and do not respond.
Please let me know if you have, and also if any of you have experienced something like this in the past.
Jerry
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Post by Emerald Midi on Feb 11, 2011 15:04:18 GMT
Jerry, mate, I just received one of these emails 45 minutes ago! The mad thing is the same sort of email was sent to a very good friend in Cork last month or so who told me about it, so I immediately suspected this one to be an attempted scam. It even has the same sort of wording.
Be warned folks, be warned!
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Post by JohnG on Feb 11, 2011 15:05:50 GMT
Hi Jerry,
Yes, I just got one, it goes like this:
"I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,I and my family came down here to Madrid,Spain for a short vacation unfortunately we got mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash,wallet,credit card and cell were stolen off us,but luckily for us we still have our passport back in our hotel room. We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight is leaving in few hours from now but we're having problems settling our hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills,We're freak out at the moment. Jerry."
Glad you posted here to let us know. Hope you get it sorted. I had my facebook account compromised a few weeks back and discontinued it. The password wasn't strong enough.
JohnG.
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Post by Emerald Midi on Feb 11, 2011 15:24:25 GMT
That is the same message I got, John.
Sorry to hear your FC account was hacked, so far I have had no trouble on that score. I think I'll set a new password again....also with my g-mail account.
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Post by shanless on Feb 11, 2011 16:49:22 GMT
I got TWO.....one at 14.17 and another at 14.21......I says to meself....bejasus Jerry u must be a quick mover..cause you answered the Joe Dolan post at 10.14am......lololol
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Post by Emerald Midi on Feb 11, 2011 17:16:37 GMT
Haha! Nice one!
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Post by shyamwestwind on Feb 11, 2011 19:41:08 GMT
Well well well, I suspectedsomething was amiss and if it hadn't been for my Trojan Remover Alert , I might have been in deep trouble . I just threw ir into Spam and I guess I'm safe. Thanks for the warning and info, Jerry.
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