Angelo PC

I received an email, yesterday, appearing to be from one of my customers, using a Yahoo! email account. The subject was “An Emergency Please”. Here is the exact text of the email, spelling and grammar mistakes included:

Am in a great sorrow writing you this note,Just wanted inform you about something very important,i could barely think straight at this point,i hope you come to my aid. Because something very terrible is happening to me now,i need a favor from you now,I had a trip here in UK on a mission.

Unfortunately for me all my money got stolen on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my bag were my passport was,And since then i have been without any money i am even owing the hotel here.So i have limited access to emails for now, please i need you to lend me about 700pounds so i can make arrangements and return back I am full of panic now,the police only asked me to write a statement about the incident and directed me to the embassy,i have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now.i wasn’t injured because I complied immediately.

I will be waiting to hear from you since i can’t access the internet always
Kind Regards

This is obviously a scam email, but I thought, since I had details to share, I would let people know about it. You always have to be on the lookout. I did make a phone call to the customer and advise that they, at least, change the password for their email account. Yahoo! should also be notified.

I only mention Yahoo!, because it appears as though the account has been hacked into, in order to send the email to everyone in the account holder’s address book. I don’t believe that this is a problem exclusively their own. I’ve read about Gmail accounts being compromised, as well. However, Gmail is still my overall choice for online mail accounts.

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