Emails been hacked!

[Ty Korrigan]

My Afghan ex-employee recieved this today and asked me if it was genuine or not...

 

 

 

On Wed, 18 Jan, 2017 at 11:01, Mr.Philips cookson

<[email protected]> wrote:

 

Re: Your immediate response is Need to claim your abandoned shipment

 

Attn; Dear

 

From the Desk of Mr.Philips cookson, a former US Army Contractor presently

working as the Assistant Director Inspection Unit of San Francisco

International Airport USA./During my recent routine check at the Airport

Storage/vault on withheld packages, I discovered an abandoned shipment that

belongs to you from a Diplomat from Africa, when scanned it in our airport

scanning machine it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in two Metal Trunk

Boxes weighing approximately 25kg each and some people are coming after this

consignment to clam it in your name as your representatives.

 

The consignment was abandoned because the Contents was not properly declared by

the consignee as “MONEY” rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid

interrogation and also the inability of the diplomat to pay for the Consignment

Irrevocable Airport Release Permit Sum of $75, when we scanned the consignment

and discovered large sum of Million of US Dollars we withheld the consignment

and requested for Consignment Irrevocable Airport Release Permit from the

country of

origin BENIN REPUBLIC, the diplomat could not wait and he returned back to

where he came from and we refused to return back the consignment where it came

from since we have already received it here in USA.

 

On my assumption, each of the boxes will contain more than US$1.5Million to

US$1.5 Million each and the consignment is still left in our Storage House here

at the Capital Region International Airport California till date. The details

of the consignment including your name, your email address and the official

document from the United Nations office in Geneva are tagged on the Metal Trunk

boxes in your favor. However, to enable me confirm if you are the actual

recipient of this consignment, I will advise you to provide your current Phone

Number and Full Address, to enable me cross check if it corresponds with the

address on the official documents including the Name of the nearest Airport

around your city.

 

Please note that this consignment is supposed to have been returned to the

United States Treasury Department as unclaimed delivery due to the delays in

concluding the clearance processes and the unpaid sum of $75 to the Consignment

country of origin BENIN REPUBLIC for there Government income revenue charges

which can not be weaved or ignore by US Government hence, you must pay the $75

to BENIN REPUBLIC to enable them grant us Consignment Irrevocable Airport

Release Permit to release your abandon consignment and deliver it to you

without any further charges. The US Government is expecting you to pay the

above

charge to this very state as you receive this mail today so that your

consignment will not be confiscated and put into US Treasure as an unclaimed

consignment.

 

So in order words, I will advise you to send the required details to me for

quick processing and response. Once I receive your information including the

receipt of the payment Sum of $75 for the Consignment Irrevocable Airport

Release Permit Charges, I can get everything concluded within 3-6 hours upon

your acceptance and proceed to your address for delivery.

 

Note that you are expected to pay only $75 to the Consignment Irrevocable

Airport Release Permit Charges and you are to pay it to below information

through money gram or Ria Money Transfer only:

 

Receiver’s Name: ==== DOM EMEKA

Country: ======= BENIN REPUBLIC

City======= COTONOU

Text Question: ======= When?

Answer: ======= Now

Amount: ======= $75

M.T.C.N:.?????????

 

Send the above required amount to the above stated information for the

obtaining of your Consignment Irrevocable Airport Release Permit and forward

the payment information as you make the payment and you can come over to San

Francisco, CA 94102, United States to pick up your consignment by yourself or

we can deliver it to your designated delivering address pending on your choice.

 

Mr.Philips cookson

 

Assistance Inspection Director

San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco, CA 94102, United States

Private Tel:707-3835-173

[Gary Prentice]

Totally genuine, get it paid:biggrin:

[Ty Korrigan]

Thank for the advice, I took a punt and wired the money only to find Bolam had got there first...damn his eyes!

Ty:lol:

[Mark Bolam]

Snooze ya lose Ty!

 

[Gary Prentice]

So, to try to stop getting hacked again I've looked at the two step authentication. Set it up on my private email account, no real problem.

 

Go into work this morning to discuss doing this with all the work accounts. First obstacle, no one knows there passwords to even sign in. Okay, I'll do my own, what's the Apple ID and password for the app? No-one knows. Get into that with security questions and then get told that due to major security changes (new password) you can't get the authentication app for two days.

 

Try to explain the two step process to the wife, who uses a pin sentry for online banking, "So I get a device?",

"No, you use an App on your phone!"

"Do I get a card, that I put in my phone?"

"No!"

"I don't use my phone to access my email"

"Doesn't matter, the app is on your phone, to give a number to sign in"

"But I don't use my phone to look at emails and what's an App?"

:banghead: