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WARNING Email Scam

Joined Sep 2009
190 Posts | 0+
Northern, Minnesota
This morning I receive the following email that is a scam! If you reply it will go to ([email protected]) you will notice that is V V and not a W! Also that is not Mark’s phone # or fax #.



((Hello,



I am sorry for reaching you rather too late due to the situation of things right now. My family and I had a visiting to Dubai, UAE, everything was going on fine until last night when we got attacked by some unknown gunmen. All our money,phones and Valuable was stolen away, It was a terrible experience but the good thing is that they didn't hurt anyone or made away with our passports.



We have reported the incident to the Police and the Embassy but their response was too slow, we were ask to come back in 2weeks time for investigations to be made properly, But the truth is we can't wait till then as we have just got our return flight booked and is leaving in few hours from now but presently having problems sorting out our bills here and also getting a cab down to the airport, Right now we are financially strapped due to the unexpected robbery attack, Wondering if you can help us with a quick loan to sort our bills and get back home. All we need is ($1450 USD) to find our way back home. Please write back to let me know what you can do?



Thank you,

Mark Mast

Buckeye Whitetail Auctions

(330)493-2619

fax (330) 863-2569

www.buckeyewhitetailauction.com))



:mad:
 
It only takes hackers 5 minutes to hack your 6 digit lowercase password. If you change that to 8 character including upper/lower case plus a @&$?! symbol, it takes 200 years. Is your password the same for most of your accounts??? What happens WHEN -not "if"- your email gets hacked with all of your banking info, ssn, etc. Please take the time to setup a longer password NOW. Gmail, Facebook and others now offer a second form of verification when trying to log in from an unrecognized location or when trying to change your password.



Do you know that 20% of you have the name of your child or dog plus a 1 as your password.



If you have a ten digit password of upper/lower cases with a number/character thrown in...it takes hacker software 20,000 years to get your password.
 
I travel to Dubai often and have run into Mark there often, I thought it was for real !!!!! LOL
 
These guys are up to no good. When I got home yesterday my email account was shut down so even I couldn't log in. I spent a good part of the evening changing my passwords, security qeustions etc. Good thing is I got the account back. Bad thing. is Iost all my contacts and my inbox and sent folders are gone.
 

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