ALERT: Scam in Progress
One of the Boston Five (the people who organized the first protest against the ATA in Boston, and incidentally are still planning protests for the six other conventions Aruba will be at this year) had an e-mail contact account that was hacked less than a week ago. The scam message coming from this 'hijacked' e-mail reads thus:
"How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain. I am really stranded in Nigeria, because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 1550 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1600 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $3500 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help. I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.
Really hope to read from you soon"
Folks, THIS IS A SCAM. None of it is true, and in fact the same message is probably used to swindle money through a variety of hacked or bogus accounts.
The owner reported that the account had been taken over by hackers and the password changed to Google and the appropriate authorities. DO NOT respond or even open anything from volunteersfornatalee@gmail.com!
As soon as the boycotters have an alternate contact I will post it.
"How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain. I am really stranded in Nigeria, because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 1550 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1600 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $3500 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help. I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.
Really hope to read from you soon"
Folks, THIS IS A SCAM. None of it is true, and in fact the same message is probably used to swindle money through a variety of hacked or bogus accounts.
The owner reported that the account had been taken over by hackers and the password changed to Google and the appropriate authorities. DO NOT respond or even open anything from volunteersfornatalee@gmail.com!
As soon as the boycotters have an alternate contact I will post it.
posted by Dan in Tx | 5:59 PM
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