Superduch3

[suedan]

hi has anyone else recieved an email from susan perkins saying she is in the ukraine and has been robbed and needs money sent to her fast. i'm sure somebody must have hacked her account. what to others think.

[Ninnynanny]

Yes, I have. It is a scam, delete it.

[Fibonacci]

Almost certainly a hacked email account. Don't reply as she will not see the message as her password most probably have been changed so she won't be able to read your message. I usually get a few of these in a year and if I know the person well I will phone them to warn them what has happened, if they don't already know, otherwise I just discard.

[suedan]

thank you both. i thought that was the case so will delete it

[granny helen]

yes suedan I got that email last night I put it in spam what worries me is they had my email address too.

[Butterbun]

I've just deleted this e-mail which I received this morning. I suppose everyone in her address book will now get one.

[candled]

Yes I received it too..deleted it as was obviously dodgy.

[quizzywig]

I received the email too. Deleted it as it seemed like a scam.

[roopower]

Sorry, haven't been n AB much lately and didn't see post.

[grasscarp]

I had one once from someone I do know saying were abroad and had been mugged. It said something like I have tears in my eyes as I write this. Anyone less likely a) to be mugged and b) have tears in their eyes - is difficult to imagine, so I guessed it was not true.
It was a scam and it turned out that they had their email hacked and sent this message to all their contacts.