odd email

[loocyloo]

hmmm, i just got an email from an old friends email address ...

i haven't spoken to this friend for over a year ( what with one thing and another! ) but had an email saying they had had to go to spain to look after an ill cousin, could i lend them GBP 1,500 and they would pay me back as soon as got ill cousin to this country ? but bizarrely, email was signed off in my friends wifes name ( which is half of the email address ). the wording is slightly strange and just doesn't read like my friend ( or his wife! ) wrote it, and if help was needed, i a) wouldn't expect them to ask me or b) ask by email! i would expect them to ask someone closer, or if truly truly needed financial help, that their daughter would know and would give us a ring ( she is also an old friend! )

i'm a bit concerned it was/is a hoax email that has somehow got into their emails and i hope not contaminated mine!

anyone else had anything like this?

[Ripeberry]

Sounds like they have been hacked!

[Jo Jo]

Yes it doesn't sound good to me probably email address has been hacked

[tas]

Sounds very iffy to me, I would get in touch with friend to check they are ok and let them know about the email

[Jods]

firstly run a virus scan on your pc/laptop/ipad, then change your password to a huge and difficult one on your email, its a myth not to write it down, as the chances of being burgled and passwords being nicked is as unprobable as being hit by a bus, I have all mine noted in a book. Is there any other way you can communicate with your friend do so, if not open a new google/hotmail up, just for the purpose to send her an email that she has been hacked and her email is being used as a scam/spam (you can delete the account once done).

THIS IS A SCAM x

[Twinkles]

I once had one from a mindees mum asking if I wanted to improve my sex life !!

She was sooooo embarrassed when I told her

[loocyloo]

LOL! i sent a reply to that email saying i was concerned and got one back saying it was true ... BUT .... although it says email sent from friends email, it also has originators email twit! but yes, will be contacting friends daughter! only have email contact for my friend.

[silvermist]

There was something about this on the news the other night!! An old man had recieved an email from a friends email address saying she had gone to another country and had been robbed so had no money to get back, she couldnt call him but could he send her some money!!!! I think he got done for about £1500!!
Its a serious scam going on!

[WibbleWobble]

ahhhh but do you not realise that they are also a prince who cannot access his inheritance and therefore needs you to send him your bank details so the money can be transferred through your account.....and for your trouble you will receive one million dollars!

Or if that fails he has some tablets which will make your lovelength......ahem.....lengthier!


wibble xxxx

[caz3007]

Its a scam, I have read about this in the past.

[TooEarlyForGin?]

I have had personalised messages from both my daughters guitar teacher and dance teacher, both had their accounts hacked and looked very much like they had sent them, but they hadn't.

It wouldn't have made any difference if I had changed my E-mail passwords as it was their account that had been hacked.

[Chimps Childminding]

We've had one of these in the past!! A "friend" of dh's that we don't see very much of apparently were on holiday and had lost all their money/cards etc.

Just so happened that their son played cricket with ours and dh asked him if his parents were on holiday - answer NO!!!
Just deleted it!!

[sophia36]

I kept getting emails from my mother in law saying how much viagra had enhanced her and her husbands sex life!

When I told her she was absolutely mortified (hubbies family are very prudish!) especially when she found out the email had been sent to everyone in her address book. They run a business from home and all their customers were lucky enough to get the email too.

[lozzy23]

This scam was shown on one of those consumer programmes, the one with Gloria Hunniford, she was able to find a mobile number and phoned it. At first the man was saying he was a friend of her friend and to send £1500 immediately, when she said she was from the BBC he soon hung up. Funny that

[Mollymop]

It does sound like a scam I have had these in the past and some of my friends have had emails from me. I had to change my password to my email account which stopped it.
I would email your friend and let them know what has happened as it sounds to me as though they have been hacked and the hacker is using their email address book to send these email to everyone of their friends.

[jane5]

I was hacked into last month and they changed the password so I couldn't get into it, I only managed to sort it out last week.

I haven't heard anything yet about any scams that they sent so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

My sil works for a large company and her md got an email suggesting the sex improving tablets
She was mortified