[meteorite-list] I'm OK. Yahoo Account Hacked

Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
Sun Jun 27 13:34:46 EDT 2010


Richard, Sorry about this public email... I'm sending this to the list 
because I have no private email address for you that I know is not 
compromised.

I just received TWO more emails from your email address...

"...as soon as you're done with the transfer please get back to me with 
the Confirmation details from the Western Union #MTCN..."

'...as soon as you're don with the transfer...kindly get back to me the 
Confirmation details from the WESTERN UNION..."

Check your anti-virus program. make sure you don't have a trojan or 
password sniffer program. If you already changed your password on your 
Yahoo account, and I just received an email, that not good and tells me 
it's possible that they got your new password too. The only way that 
could happen is if they have a LIVE connection to your computer, or 
there's a password trojan or sniffer on your computer. Run your 
anti-virus program. I reccommend Avast Home Edition (FREE) 
http://www.avast.com Also check your users on your computer, you should 
be the only one.

Eric



On 6/27/2010 9:44 AM, Richard Kowalski wrote:
> My fiance' just woke me up with great concern. After a phone call from 
> Kelly Beatty checking in on my due to the recent scam email.
>
> It was apparent to me as soon as I hear about what was happening that 
> someone had hacked into my yahoo account and sent out that scam email 
> about me being in the UK and being mugged.
>
> I can assure you I am at home in Tucson, safe and comfortable. I have 
> reset my password on Yahoo Mail and and sipping my coffee.
>
> Thanks to Kelly for calling here to give us a heads up so we could 
> respond more quickly and to Darren Garrison for the warning not to 
> respond on the Metlist.
>
> So far it seems the only damage done so far is to spam the list, cause 
> some concern and delete all the messages in my damoclid inbox...
>
> Sorry for any concerns and worries this may have caused.
>
>



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