bogus emails looking for money

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/27/2010 12:51 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> writes:
>
>   
>> A friend's webmail account (@msn.com) appears to have been hacked.  I
>> received a request to wire $1470 to London (UK) to help her out.  She
>> was mugged and lost her cash and credit cards.
>>
>> Is there any place to report this sort of email that might actually do
>> some good?
>>
>> I'll start with abuse at msn.com, but would love to find out about better
>> alternatives.
>>     
> Mostly you should just tell your friend to change their password..  And
> check the email addresses linked to their account.
>   
We recently got a couple of SPAM messages from one of our members' gmail
accounts on the BLU discussion list. After I contacted him, he then
changed his password to a more secure password.

Actually, after looking at the email headers, it was in fact a hacked
gmail webmail account. I'm not sure what gmail (in this case) or msn (in
Lloyd's case) can really do at this point, but worth a try.

Even worse is the hijacking of from addresses. I'm not sure how to
prevent that.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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