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My wife's Yahoo e-mail account just got hacked

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Hustle, May 1, 2008.

  1. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Somebody just e-mailed me pix of a naked woman in Nigeria.
     
  2. Hustle

    Hustle Guest

    Ragu and THGC: She has an e-mail in to her IT guy. I'd like to think that a Congressional PC is pretty well maintained... (go ahead, insert your own joke here)
     
  3. StormSurge

    StormSurge Active Member

    National Geographic spam. Great.
     
  4. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    Or SI's next swimsuit issue.
     
  5. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    I have no idea what "pull out the long header" means. But it sounds vaguely upsetting.
     
  6. John

    John Well-Known Member

    On another hacking note: Yesterday my bank called me and told me some company in Russia just put a $630 charge on my Visa. It got flagged because a couple of other Merrill Lynch customers got the same charge.

    I got the call about it yesterday at about 12:30 p.m. They terminated that Visa and at 9:50 this morning the UPS guy delivered me a new one. Which was just in time because I had a plane to catch a couple of hours later.


    And my all-time favorite spam subject line is one I got back in 2003 -- "Sexy bin Laden pics!!!"
     
  7. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    One of our coaches' e-mail address sent us a similar message; it was only asking for $1,500. I cut a check, and I still feel good about myself.
     
  8. bagelchick

    bagelchick Active Member

    One of the reasons I will always be a Chase Mastercard holder is the time they called because they noticed some fraudulent activity. I can't recall exactly what it was...I want to say a charge from a car repair place in Miami ,then a large charge, like $1,500 at Sears.

    It scared the hell out of me because I had to practically give them blood over the phone to prove who I was, but they caught it, called me, cancelled the account and had a new card sent to me practically the next day.
     
  9. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member


    The husband of one of my wife's friends had his e-mail account hacked like that last month. I knew he wasn't overseas like that. But it was good for some laughs.
    I got the e-mail in the morning. That afternoon my wife and her friend stopped by the house and I said to her "sorry to hear about his crisis in Nigeria" and she said "what are you talking about?" and I said "he e-mailed me telling me what happened" and puzzled she and my wife were asking "what are you talking about?"
    so I brought them over to the computer and showed them. She called her husband to let him know what was going on with the e-mail (as it was an account they haven't used in a long time) and he told her that he already got several phone calls from friends asking what was going on.
     
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