Pam Wright's Email Hijacked

[Dan & Julie CO]

I recieved an email I'll paste it

Hope you get this on time,sorry I didn't inform you about my trip to Cyprus for a Program, I'm presently in Cyprus, I am having some difficulties here because i misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things were kept. presently i have limited access to internet,I will like you to assist me with a loan of 2,500 Euro to sort-out my hotel bills and to get myself back home.

I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively,I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with,I'll Refund the money back to you as soon as i return,let me know if you can be of any help.I don't have a phone where i can be reached.


Please let me know immediately.
Regards.

[Dan & Julie CO]

If anyone has Pam's phone # might want to give her a heads up
thanks Dan

[Mike B]

I got the same kind of email from a friend who lives in Rathdrum, ID (15 miles from my house). It claimed he was in London and yada, yada, yada. He is 83 years old and doesn't have the money to fly to London, so I knew right off the bat it was a hoax.

I just emailed him back and told him his (Windoze) computer email had been compromised and he should get the computer cleaned. He emailed me back thanking me.

Mike
Hayden Lake, ID

[Gage]

This same thing happened to Pam last year. She needs to do something about that.

PS: She posted on facebook that she knows about this problem and is warning everyone not to open.

[Miriam C.]

Definitely don't open. Poor Pam, her email list and folders are all gone. Nasty bunch!

btw anyone know an easy way for Pam to get all that back? I bet she would appreciate it.

[starleen2]

Man -Pam, you sure do travel around alot! Just Kidding - I remembered this from last year

[caseydog]

Hmmmm, just today, someone hacked into one of my email accounts, and used my addy to send spam emails with a message in Russian, to thousands of .ru email addresses.

I found out, because the undeliverable emails triggered several "postmaster" notices telling me of hundreds of emails that could not be delivered.

CD

[Miriam C.]

For those who don't know Pam is the Director of Rocky Mountain Tearjerkers, and a member here. She is also the originator for the Last Gasp camp out....

[dratkinson]

Don't know if all of this is true, but will pass it along for what it's worth. (It might be just an urban legend and I don't know how to research it.)



Received an email from my neighbors over the weekend talking about email accounts being hijacked and how to prevent this and how to notify you if it is attempted against you. (It was an email that they forwarded to me.)



1. How to know if your email contacts list has been hacked.

It suggested that it is easy to know when your email account has been hacked. How? Simple. Put a fake contact address into your address book ([email protected]).

This fake email contract will sort itself to the top of your address book and be the first one attempted by any malware attempting to hack and use your email account.

If malware attempts to send an email to your fake email address, it will not be delivered and will bounce back and show up immediately in your inbox as undeliverable. You will see it the next time you logon. This is your notice that someone attempted to hack your email account's contact list.

This part seems logical to me.


2. Stopping your email contacts list from being used to spoof your friends.

However, my neighbor's email went further and said that if the first email sent from our account was undeliverable, then the malware would know this and stop processing. It would not attempt to send to the other addresses in our contacts list.

I'm not certain this last part is true. (Would be nice if it were.)

[Dan & Julie CO]

well to late I had already opened the email ran a scan
clean

[S. Heisley]

Well, maybe someone asking for money is better than the ones I'm getting from my friend's computer. Hers keeps sending out advertisements for Viagra, etc.

Instead of a contact with @@@@@.@@ or something like that, I have a contact in my list with the name of 'Me' and my email address. That works,too, because I know if I sent anything to "Me".

[Pam Wright]

Thanks Slowcowboy!!!, Thought I was your best friend!!!! Ha! Ha!

NO, I'M NOT IN CYPRESS AND NO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEND ME MONEY!!!![

I am headed to Mesa, Arizona today after work.... (from Denver!!!!) for the Tearjerker gathering 'SPRING CLEAN'..... Does anybody want to finance that????? LOL!!!!

Friends and Family..... I am sorry that this hit me again and pray thay it didn't and won't hit you..... I will be changing my email address when I get back from AZ, in fact Yahoo be damned!!!!! I'm going with HOTMAIL!!!!!

pam

[The Teardrop Nanny]

Hmmm....just to be sure, if it really is PAM......
where did you camp at the IRG? and what did B leave behind there?? Only the real PAM could answer these accurately......
Have a great fling in your CDrop. xoxo TDN

[rebapuck]

Here's my problem that someone maybe can help me with.

I use Outlook Express. Used it for 6-7 years. I have yet to figure out how to delete a message without opening it. Just highlighting it makes it open.

My neighbor, also using OE, says when I read it in the "preview" panel, it's not really open. But the little envelope icon next to it shows open.

[CAJUN LADY]

Thanks Slowcowboy!!!, Thought I was your best friend!!!! Ha! Ha!

NO, I'M NOT IN CYPRESS AND NO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEND ME MONEY!!!![

I am headed to Mesa, Arizona today after work.... (from Denver!!!!) for the Tearjerker gathering 'SPRING CLEAN'..... Does anybody want to finance that????? LOL!!!!

Friends and Family..... I am sorry that this hit me again and pray thay it didn't and won't hit you..... I will be changing my email address when I get back from AZ, in fact Yahoo be damned!!!!! I'm going with HOTMAIL!!!!!

pam

Haven't had a single problem with my Hotmail account! {knocking on my wooden desk} Give it a try Pam!