[Magdalen] The hacked mail..

[Andre and Carol]

I get these emails all the time, pretending to be from people I know. I'm glad Brian pointed out that this is not actually hacking your account. If you click on the name it is supposedly from, you should be able to see who it is really from, and it won't match your actual friend's email address..

Same with Facebook cloning. So easy to do, no account hacking needed. I just send the emails to my spam folder, and on Facebook I do a search, find the fake, and report it so Facebook can remove it before too many people fall for the fake friend request.

This has been happening for so long I am surprised how many people have still not encountered it. By now it doesn't even jolt my adrenalin. Ignore it, or do anything that might stop or block the cloner, maybe notify your friend you got "one of those" in his/her name, but don't worry about your account -- just the friends who might fall for something your "clone" asks them to do.

Carol T


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------ Original Message ------

From: Brian Reid
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Sent: September 20, 2017 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The hacked mail..

Sending email from Yahoo that pretends to be you does not require access to your Yahoo account. It is unlikely that your account was hacked. Even closing your Yahoo account will not stop such emails. On 9/20/17 5:48 AM, Sheila Ketler wrote:>Hello everyone>I am now subscribed again. I had to subscribe to every list and mailing>that I had and it has been a major annoyance to say the least... They>hacked into my yahoo mail account and someone I work with at the church>received one of those spam emails asking her to purchase iTune cards that I>needed them. Unfortunately she did this but she was smart enough not to>scratch the pins on the cards so she has them but doesn't want them she is>hoping to sell them.>This has been a major mess... and took a bit of time. I am trying to get>used to Gmail as it is a bit different.. and I did get rid of Yahoo but I>still get the odd message through there... Need to find out how to get it>gone for good..!!>>Sheila>