Maybe you saw that I had written an earlier post on "Hoax Emails"? Well it's time another one! Except this one is a threat!
So I've never personally received this one, but know this one has a particularly high success rate at scamming people because of it's credibility. Maybe you've heard it...
It says that a friend of yours is out travelling in a foreign land and are mugged. From there, they have no way of getting money and need you and the rest of the victim's friends to wire it to them through "their" Western Union account. This new scam is smart enough to create an email address for you using your first and last name and maybe even birthday as numbers, and send it out to the hacked person's contacts based on social networks and their friends. Typically the victim gets hacked through what's called "clickjacking" (I think). So be wary of clicking on a stray add when on Facebook.
Pretty intense and crazy! If you happen to see this email notify your friend that sent you this. If you want to read more about where I heard it from, there's an article here (it's ok... that link is not a scam, I promise!)
Tomás, that happened to my parents two weeks before I started JVC. Everyone in the gmail got an email. Our home phone was ringing off the hook not to mention our cells with texts/calls. It is actually very strange as it became obvious how many family and friends would step up if we really were in such a terrible situation. One person who knew it was a hoax even continued to communicate with the "hacked account" in an attempt to achieve more information for us to pass on to authorities. It my parents "email story" they were in Scotland and held up at "knife-point"
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