fern Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 If you received an email from me yesterday requesting wire transfer money I hope you realized it was a scam. I STRONGLY suggest you confirm the security of your own email and other "social media" accounts. This includes checking that there is no auto-forwarding of messages to your email account that are being sent to an unknown address. Any information that was stored in my 6+yrs of gmail archives is now "out there" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 on the positive side though, fern, you can always do a fine trip report this month and get 50$ for your troubles might want to ask for it in american dollars though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 TR: Getting Mugged on my trip to Wales Date: March 7, 2011 I was in Wales and got mugged. None of my lame facebook friends would wire me money! You all suck. Approach Notes: Snuck up behind me in an alley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 were you really in Wales? Any mixed in Snowdonia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldiente Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Oddly I had 3x climber friends all get their email account hijacked this past weekend and sent the same damn email. A trend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Oddly I had 3x climber friends all get their email account hijacked this past weekend and sent the same damn email. A trend? just the chinese (or the welsh?) probing for weaknesses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I got one of those 2 days ago. what a pain. they got my email and changed the pw. not having a second email, it was a tedious process to get it back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Hey 111, if there was any amount of personal info in your email archives I'd recommend filing a police report and setting up a credit alert (equifax, transunion etc.) to establish a formal paper trail in the event of future identity theft problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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