[Lowfer] Phishing Scam

[Dexter McIntyre W4DEX]

Does the mean you aren't going to repay me for the 5 $100 iTunes cards
John?  :)

Dex

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:13 PM JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Those of you who are also regular readers of the LWCA Message Board will
> already be aware of this, but someone spoofing my name on a gmail return
> address was asking people who are on the LowFER and HiFER beacon lists to
> spend money on "my" behalf and email them hundreds of dollars worth of
> iTunes card numbers...maybe other things too, for all I know.
>
> I've actually been out of email contact for the past week and had only
> limited access to the message board, so I'm just now learning the extent
> of it. Fortunately, Google appears to have shut down the offending gmail
> account.
>
> And FWIW, there doesn't appear to be any hacking, trojans, or other
> malware involved--just old-fashioned low tech skullduggery by manual
> means, finding a community of people, identifying someone most of them
> might trust, and temporarily sticking his identity on a throwaway email
> account to solicit goods or services under false pretenses.  (An online
> search shows other names associated with that return address, too, so we
> weren't the only ones being targeted.)
>
> John D
>
>
>
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