[Elecraft] Email DANGEROUS EMAIL

[Fred Jensen]

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.

Same thing is true for the phone calls ... "Your Amazon purchase for 
nine hundred fifty three dollars is ready to ship.  Press 1 to confirm, 
press 2 to cancel."  Both 1 and 2 are the same, they connect you to the 
scam boiler room where you will be cajoled into coughing up your CC #.  
Just hang up.

And, just a heads up:  The IRS does not accept gift cards for the back 
taxes you don't actually owe.  Nor is the Sheriff going to appear in 
your driveway in 20 minutes or the electric company going to turn off 
your electricity in half an hour if you don't send the gift card #'s.  
Remember the International "J" signal JHU: "Just Hang Up."

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

Gwen Patton wrote on 2/14/2023 2:30 PM:
> 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. You think you're doing a nice thing for your friend, but it's someone
> else entirely.
>
> If you have a method other than email for sending that person a message,
> let them know their email has been hacked and they need to take action to
> get it back. Do not answer the email itself.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 73,
> Gwen, NG3P
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:51 PM G4GNX<g4gnx at g4gnx.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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 steffey ny9h<ny9h at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> GOT THIS SENT LOOKING LIKE IT IS FROM ELECRAFT LIST .....
>>>
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