True, I used to get these off-the-wall messages, supposedly from friends
of mine on facebook, telling me things like "I am making crazy money using
this system," and would give me a link to click on, and I knew none of my
friends would've written something like that, especially the one I got that
from who at the time, ran a day care center out of her home.
I got one one time from someone I went to FSDB with, who was deaf/blind,
claiming she or someone who possibly hacked her acount, got a large sum of
money from an organization called deafview, and that I should contact them
to get mine, and said something about "us lucky deaf people," as part of
one of the messages she sent me, which made me wonder, but only gave me
someone's aim screen name to contact them about the supposed sum of money,
which I never bothered with.
On Sep 12, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Dillon Collier <[email protected]>
wrote:
This web sight is a good way to get hacked I wouldn't mess with if I
were u!
dillon collier
On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:59 PM, The Believer <[email protected]>
wrote:
And of course some of those emails look to be from a trusted source
but those sources were very likely to have been compromised. So best bet
is, if it looks and smells fishy, it is.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/12/2014 10:54 AM, Todd W wrote:
It's certainly better to be safe than sorry. If an e-mail looks fishy,
even if it's from an address you know, it probaly is...
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:07 PM, The Believer <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Deleting spam without further ado is safe.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/12/2014 9:48 AM, Eleanor Roberts wrote:
Very interesting to read all the different points on this. But just
one
question, as someone who opened the e-mail but did not follow the
link or
go onto the website or anything will I have exposed any of my
information
to these potential hackers or not?? Just a bit concerned I may've
done
something very stupid by even opening the e-mail. Any thoughts from
those
of you far more experienced than me most welcome/appreciated.
Thanks.
Eleanor
Sent from my iPad
On 12 Sep 2014, at 17:24, Todd W <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually this one seems to be true. This leak has been reported by
several news outlets in the past several days.
Todd
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, The Believer <
[email protected]> wrote:
No, emails like this are never legit, never.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/11/2014 11:29 PM, Eleanor Roberts wrote:
Hi Andrew
I had exactly the same e-mail. I haven't tried the website, but
share
your concerns completely. Could anyone else who is more in the
know than
me please confirm if this was legit or not?? As with Andrew, I
too am
worried that I may have revealed my address to a hacker.
Thanks.
Eleanor
Sent from my iPad
On 12 Sep 2014, at 06:25, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]>
wrote:
Listers,
I think it was yesterday or the day before that I found among the
messages from the list an e-mail containing a warning of a
possible leak of
e-mail addresses from gmail. The messaged contained
instructions on how to
check whether one's e-mail was possibly compromised or not. The
website to
go to was is leaked.com.
As I saw no reference to this by any other member of the group,
I now
wonder whether it was spam. Has anyone else received this
warning? Is the
website isleaked.com genuine? I connected to it to check my
e-mail
address. It opened in Russian and from there there was a link to
the US
version and Spanish version and possibly others as well. I now
worry that
the whole thing was spam and I may have revealed my address to a
hacker.
I'd be very grateful to hear whether anyone else has been
notified by
this e-mail of a possible theft of millions of gmail addresses.
Thank you.
Andrew
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