All,
I was the recipient of such an email scam a few weeks back. Fortunately,
it was a good friend that was hacked, so I asked him to call me on the
phone where I could hear his voice and he could answer a few questions
that only he and I know the proper answers to. I did not receive a
phone call.
In other words, be careful when responding to requests such as those -
practice safe computing.
Be suspicious if the "sender" does not initially make a request, but
simply asks a question like "do you use Amazon". Medicare does not call
subscribers, and the same for the IRS - those are scam calls, do not
give them any information.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 2/14/2023 5:57 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
Ummm ... be careful to not overplay this. "Hacked your email" is
usually taken to mean "breaking into your email client." That's not
really what is going on. Our email addresses permeate the Internet
and are fairly easy to harvest. Likewise, forging a fake originator's
address when sending an email, even making it look like it was sent
thru a list, is equally easy. These annoying emails are essentially
harmless unless you take them as true, buy gift cards, and pass out
the card numbers. Just delete them.
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