[Elecraft] Email DANGEROUS EMAIL

[W3FPR]

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.