When I got up this morning, Mr S. said the following to me.
Him - I got a weird email from one of my old friends.
Me - What is weird about it?
Him - It was a letter asking for help. That he'd flown to Europe and had gotten robbed at gunpoint. They still had their passports, but they needed money to get home. His wife and kids were okay. (the wife's name was included in the email)
Mr S. goes onto say - I'm sure it's a scam. So I wrote him back and asked him to verify how we knew each other.
Me - That is weird. It sounds like a scam to me too. But, how do they know his wife's name.
Him - Right. And how would they know he had kids?
Me - I'm pretty sure it's a scam. I mean, how would you fly to Europe and not have a return ticket? And... I thought they didn't have guns there, I say sarcastically.
So, Mr S. winds up calling the guy. Apparently, it was a scam. It was a Nigerian scam.
The guy goes onto say - the Nigerians have apparently figured out how to hack gmail. And that he can't get Google to shut the account down. But, he has heard from a lot of people he hasn't heard from in a while.
Anyway. Just a warning if you have a Gmail account.
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There have been reports of this happening to hacked Twitter accounts too. At least you have to give them credit for being more creative than the lottery emails. A lot of banks won't do business via email for this exact reason.
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of hilarious.
ReplyDeleteOur PTSA has a Gmail account. I'm waiting for it to get hacked now. Even more funny since we are in Europe!