Hello All, Is there anyone out there who is also in the Notts FHS who are getting what I will call '*begging emails*' supposedly from Dominic Johnson and Mary Ellis? They are asking for money as they are apparently stranded overseas with no money and could I send them some urgently through Western Union or whatever. I have had 2 separate emails for this - one for Dominic on 22 Oct and Mary on 2 Nov. and obviously I haven't replied. I would not normally use this site in this way but I have no-one else to ask and I can't use the NFHS website as I do not want to become involved in any virus scam. Thank you, Ann BASSFORD - née BIRKINSHAW, in very warm area of NZ :-)

We have had 3 of this type recently One in French and two in English. It is very unsettling because the hacker has managed to include accurate details about the victim in short, in one case, we learned that the husband of the woman (French) had been killed in a car accident in London. After frantic phone calls, all over the place - because the couple were as I suspected - on holiday in the USA! - the son, who was minding his mother's mobile and emails telephoned us to say that their email system was completely blocked. A friend foolishly replied by email to a similar scam and immediately received a follow on "Now send money to X" message! NEVER reply to such a message by the (compromised ) email - it could leave you open to someone's "interest"! The answer is that the victim (the one whose mail has been taken over) needs to change 1. password 2. preferably the complete email address 3. the server too, especially if they have not been helpful to you! Also keep different passwords for different things - i.e do not use the same one for family history, the bank and online purchasing. If you send messages to several people at the same time or forward something, wipe out existing email addresses and send under BCC so the addresses are not all available for spammers to grab. Finally a friend - an IT specialist - says there is a current problem with gmail and googlemail - apparently they are relatively easy to break into. Good luck! Jean Wood http://www.cheziris.eu/Duterrau.htm > Message du 06/11/13 02:42 > De : "Ann Bassford" > A : "NOTTSGEN-L" > Copie à : > Objet : [NTT] Notts FHS Virus?? > > Hello All, > > Is there anyone out there who is also in the Notts FHS who are getting > what I will call '*begging emails*' supposedly from Dominic Johnson and > Mary Ellis? > > They are asking for money as they are apparently stranded overseas with > no money and could I send them some urgently through Western Union or > whatever. > > I have had 2 separate emails for this - one for Dominic on 22 Oct and > Mary on 2 Nov. and obviously I haven't replied. > > I would not normally use this site in this way but I have no-one else to > ask and I can't use the NFHS website as I do not want to become involved > in any virus scam. > > Thank you, > Ann BASSFORD - née BIRKINSHAW, in very warm area of NZ :-) > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >