The Scammers never give up.

[wavescrashing]

Originally Posted by Resipsa

I got this email from a very close friend today, or so I thought:

How`s your day going? Hope everything`s alright. Please I need you to help me out with something. Can i get a loan from you very urgently? I`ll reimburse you under a week, i promise. I need to solve some personal problems at hand which have been giving me great worries. I`d also prefer if we discuss this issue through email as i am presently in England for a family friend`s funeral. I`m sorry if i didn`t inform you about it, but please try and understand. I`ll let you know how much i need if you are willing to assist. Thanks.
Barb.

A few phone calls confirmed she was fine, and not in England, but looks like someone hacked into her address book. These asshats will just never give up.

Oddly coincidental, as I read this, I was listening to a German punk song titled "I lost my identity". There are methods of securing email along with anonymizing most other information traveling across the wire. It's definitely something to think about when any script kiddie with a torrent and a couple google skills can pull of something like email hi-jacking.