My good friend and sister’s [in faith] email was hacked or let say used by scammers/defrauders/slickers/embezzlers [whatever name you got]. This person indeed was successful and able to take home 1200 euro… this was the content of his email to me…
Hello,
I am in a hurry writting this mail to you,Sorry i didnt infomed you about my urgent trip to London,Unfortunately for me all my money was stolen at the hotel where i lodged, I am so confused right now, I dont know what to do or where to go,I didnt bring my phone here and the hotel telephone lines was disconnected during the robbery incident,so i have access to only emails, Please can you send me 1000 pounds today so i can return home, As soon as i get home i would refund it immediately.Write me so i can give you my address and name where to send me the money via Western Union Money Transfer,i will be waiting for your reponse
xxx name of my friend xxx
I knew right then and there that this was a scam. My friend would not write this kind of email. It doesnt sound like her…despite the fact that i knew she is well-traveled. So I emailed her using her FB account. I had the feeling that her email account’s password would be altered. However, one relative of my friend responded and indeed sent the person money. They chatted through YM. So the 1200 euro was wired in Western Union. The rest was history… leaving us all the lessons and feeling sorry for my friend’s relative.
So how would these scammers start… they will send you this so called yahoo alert. Read on. So how did i know this was fake? This alert has a different email… the email came from Yahoo Alert! <fricksallz@verizon.net>. When you tried to reply on the email, this is what will come out, mailalertservice621@yahoo.com.
Hmmm… tricky. You really have to read everything in your email. The sender’s name, the email address, these are details that sometimes we pay attention less. I’ve nothing against yahoo. I have yahoo email account. I am using their services…and scammers too. This is just an eye-opener to the unknown emails that we are receiving in our inboxes. Be alert and be critical on the content and the sender. If it doesnt make sense, be on guard. You can always call yahoo. You can inquire and send feedback to Yahoo. We can always double check the information we received.
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Dear Valued Member,
Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down all unused accounts,You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Info below after clicking the reply botton, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
UserName:
Password: Date Of Birth:
Country Or Territory:
After Following the instructions in the sheet,your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.Thanks for your attention to this request.We apologize for any inconvinience.
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Yahoo! Customer Care
Case number: 8941624
Property: Account Security
Contact date: 2009-07-29
Well, the most basic thing to take note of aside from the use fishy looking email addresses (accountservices12@yahoo.com is obviously just a user-created account) and grammatical errors on the email itself is that Yahoo! and most other companies never will ask for your password and security info (e.g. date of birth, zip code) through such an unsecured form of communication as email. Or they never will ask for it AT ALL.
Sorry to hear about your friend becoming a victim and her relative giving in to the scam.
Sorry for putting it here. You’ve got no shoutbox for me to leave a message.
I attended Victory Imus (Robinson’s) twice only, just to try it out. That was before I began attending Victory Fort. Been doing so now for almost a year. I dunno the pastors in my link on a personal level though.
What service do you attend?
it’s ok Myk… dunno how to place shoutbox here in wordpress… but i think i have in my blogspot.
We are now back here in General Santos… we just attended in Imus when we visited my mom… but if we are in Manila we either go to Victory Pioneer and Victory UP-Diliman.
Thanks for the reply bro.
I see. What do you attend there in General Santos?
No prob. Do you still work for EPH?
See ya around maybe when you go to Manila.