[Magdalen] The hacked mail..

[Scott Knitter]

One type of fake email I've often received is the apparent plea for help
from an actual friend of mine who claims to be in Europe somewhere (the
last one had my best friend in Spain) and having had his wallet and
passport stolen and could I please wire him some money. In this friend's
case, I don't even have to phone him to find out where he really is; I can
see from his Facebook posts that he's at home and doing his teaching job
and posting about Trump, and maybe in distress about that but not about
being penniless and undocumented in Spain. So I send the fake email to Spam.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Andre and Carol <trevathans at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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..
>

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA