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General Alert - Email Warning
It appears that Danno 4x4's email address has been hacked. If you receive an email purporting to be Danno's Yahoo account, purportedly from West Africa, please be aware that a similar hack was accomplished on Hotmail.com in August. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...l_hijack_scam/) I tried calling Danno's number and it is possible that he actually is out of town, but anyone who's read his posts should know that he speaks much better English than that and he would hardly be traveling to Africa considering the current situation with his family.
Thank you for your time,
Steve
PS I know, I finally found a way to use the word "purportedly" in public. Thanks!
Thank you for your time,
Steve
PS I know, I finally found a way to use the word "purportedly" in public. Thanks!
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Thanks for the phone call Steve-O... I got several today...
I was half way up to Flagstaff, when I got an email from myself indicating that I was in West Africa and in need of some money.
I went ahead and checked my wallet, and realized that I had plenty of money... And the GPS said I was still in Arizona.
I got on the horn to a friend who sent in the request for Yahoo to put my account on lock down...
The good part is, that the Yahoo address is only one of a few accounts that I use for email... so there was no info actually in the account that could have been compromised. It appears that only folks that were saved in my address book got the emails.
I guess that they just decided to pick on me today... I am not too surprised that they got into my account... My password was too easy to figure out. The next one won't be though.
The funny thing is that several folks gave me a call and were ready to come to my aid... The only give away was that the written English was so bad that it was quite obvious that it was not written by a native speaker...
None the less, I hope that I can serve as the example... If they would have taken the time to get the english to sound right, some of my friends may have been out some money. Make your passwords more difficult to crack than I did!
Here is a copy of the email that was sent out:
I was half way up to Flagstaff, when I got an email from myself indicating that I was in West Africa and in need of some money.
I went ahead and checked my wallet, and realized that I had plenty of money... And the GPS said I was still in Arizona.
I got on the horn to a friend who sent in the request for Yahoo to put my account on lock down...
The good part is, that the Yahoo address is only one of a few accounts that I use for email... so there was no info actually in the account that could have been compromised. It appears that only folks that were saved in my address book got the emails.
I guess that they just decided to pick on me today... I am not too surprised that they got into my account... My password was too easy to figure out. The next one won't be though.
The funny thing is that several folks gave me a call and were ready to come to my aid... The only give away was that the written English was so bad that it was quite obvious that it was not written by a native speaker...
None the less, I hope that I can serve as the example... If they would have taken the time to get the english to sound right, some of my friends may have been out some money. Make your passwords more difficult to crack than I did!
Here is a copy of the email that was sent out:
Subject: Emergency !!!!!( Please i need your Help Ugently)
Hello Dear,
Please accept my apology for travilling without telling you I recently traveled out of the country, How are you? and everyone I went on a programm called Empowering The Youth,Fight Against Hiv Aids And Child Abuse which is taking place in all the west africa countries like South Africa,Ghana,Togo.and on my way from the Airport i forgot my small bag which is contianing all my important documents such as my international passport,my money,phone.This is the situation I found myself in here i have no freedom of going out of the hotel premises i logged in and i am emailing you right now from the hotel computer. I am owing the hotel where I arrived at here a sum of $1000USD and i am also going to activate my credit card which is $500USD i will be paying an amount of 1500 USD to the airport management in order for me to get my way back home the total amout i need now is 3000USD.
I would appreciate if you can borrow me the money, I promise am going pay it back to you as soon as I arrived back in the states I'll appreciate you getting back to me asap via email cos I need your help immediately.Any amount you can help me with i will be very happy to reciave it. pls i want you to understand that i can only get the payment here is West Africa, via through Western Union Money Transfer so the payment would be sent directly to the Hotel manager .Pls i want you to reply me as soon as possiable.
Dan
Hello Dear,
Please accept my apology for travilling without telling you I recently traveled out of the country, How are you? and everyone I went on a programm called Empowering The Youth,Fight Against Hiv Aids And Child Abuse which is taking place in all the west africa countries like South Africa,Ghana,Togo.and on my way from the Airport i forgot my small bag which is contianing all my important documents such as my international passport,my money,phone.This is the situation I found myself in here i have no freedom of going out of the hotel premises i logged in and i am emailing you right now from the hotel computer. I am owing the hotel where I arrived at here a sum of $1000USD and i am also going to activate my credit card which is $500USD i will be paying an amount of 1500 USD to the airport management in order for me to get my way back home the total amout i need now is 3000USD.
I would appreciate if you can borrow me the money, I promise am going pay it back to you as soon as I arrived back in the states I'll appreciate you getting back to me asap via email cos I need your help immediately.Any amount you can help me with i will be very happy to reciave it. pls i want you to understand that i can only get the payment here is West Africa, via through Western Union Money Transfer so the payment would be sent directly to the Hotel manager .Pls i want you to reply me as soon as possiable.
Dan
Last edited by Danno4x4; Oct 3, 2007 at 06:06 AM.
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alertMy ISP left an email relay open and some scum sucking, gutless, piece of horse manure managed to sneak in blast out a major load of spam. Now I have to go clean up
Spammers suck.
Good to hear that you weren't affected, Dan. And, yes, the email is hilarious. If I saw that from you, Dan, I would have sent 5K instead of 3 they were asking for
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Need... Well... Not really but if anyone is feeling particularly generous I would be happy to accept donations toward my Breast Cancer 3-Day walk coming up in less than a month during the first weekend in November 
http://www.the3day.org/arizona07/danno
but if anyone is feeling particularly generous I would be happy to accept donations toward my Breast Cancer 3-Day walk coming up in less than a month during the first weekend in November http://www.the3day.org/arizona07/danno
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Originally Posted by Danno4x4
if anyone is feeling particularly generous I would be happy to accept donations toward my Breast Cancer 3-Day walk coming up in less than a month during the first weekend in November
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Need... Well... Not really but if anyone is feeling particularly generous I would be happy to accept donations toward my Breast Cancer 3-Day walk coming up in less than a month during the first weekend in November
http://www.the3day.org/arizona07/danno
but if anyone is feeling particularly generous I would be happy to accept donations toward my Breast Cancer 3-Day walk coming up in less than a month during the first weekend in November http://www.the3day.org/arizona07/danno
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STEVE, thanks for the donation, your generosity is most sincerely appreciated!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, dear, well thank you - I wasn't going to say anything here. Lost my wife's mother to breast cancer, and the kids' nanny to inflammatory breast cancer (a completely different beast that's only now being properly diagnosed, sadly), so it was the least I could do.
