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Posted by RichardUSA on 9/4/2010, 4:36 am Message modified by board administrator 10/4/2010, 8:16 am
Red face here. I was scammed by someone who I think hacked a contact list of someone who has me ontheir list. I had corresponded with this person quite a bit a few years back and lost track of him, and unexpectedly got a request for an emergency loan two days ago. I thought it was a legitimate request from someone I sort-of knew a little bit. Since figured out I was taken.
I think scammers and hackers have found a way to steal his contact list and forge the email headers, and have my replies go to them instead of him. I don't think he did anything wrong, and maybe doesn't even know something bad is going on in his name.
I'm out 200 US which went to G-d knows who in Spain. Probably not this fellow. If you recognize who this is and can phone him, let him know his yahoo account was probably hacked and someone is going around begging for short term loans to cover a catastrophe, in his name.
In the meantime, don't do what I did. If someone you think you know asks for money by email, verify it by phone before sending any.
What a nice guy you are. I got the same scam email and ignored it, evne thought I know Frank - he attended a UK workshop. I have emailed him (and copied youn in) to tell him what is happening.
I don't think emailing Frank will work. I truly don't think he did the scam. Hackers are using his email contact list and somehow are seeing the emails I send to Frank, then responding to them.
I still think Frank himself is a good guy.
If you guys can somehow track him down and put a phone call through, maybe you can let him know he is being used. I've alreay notified Yahoo and will talk to our police later, but if Frank is an innocent he needs to be told someone screwed with his account.
If Frank actually got the money, then I'm OK with it. He requested it, I was nice to him because he was once nice to me about something, and if he needs money I'm happy to help. Instead, what I think happened, because Patrick of our Detroit Support Group knows about the scam methodology and contacted me (they tried it on them there too) I think the money went to an unknown scoundrel in Spain.
Again, I think someone stole his ID, contact list, and hacked his computer, to pull this one off. I'm not blaming Frank.
Discussing this with folks on another board, someone pointed out that if Frank and I have any mutual friends (which we of course do through UKPT and IPA) the contact info could have been stolen by a virus on anyone of these people's machines.
I did not have his contact info on my machine, lost track of it, and so this may be some automated deal from within Yahoo, or among IPA folks.
Patrick of the Detroit Support Group seems to think a couple of guys in his group got similar emails.