Fred,
I might agree with you on this, except the email was sent to a targeted
email list that the original owner was subscribed to. That smells like
the original owner's email was hacked, and the hacker went through his
contact list, sending emails to targets more likely to respond.
That,
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
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
Those "do you order from Amazon?" emails are part of a scam to get you to
purchase gift cards. They hack an email address, and send emails as the
person whose account they hacked. They get you to buy a gift card "for a
family member with X disease" or something like that, and send them the
code.
It looks like it didn’t go through the reflector, as it’s not in the archive.
Just ignore and delete it.
Hopefully the idiot who sent it, is now getting all input to the reflector,
which should bore him stupid, unless he’s a Ham.
73,
Alan - G4GNX
Moderator
> On 14 Feb 2023, at 20:24, bill
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