I urge anyone who has had money or personal information stolen in these 'relative in distress' scams to make report with www.ic3.gov. it is the internet crime complaint center. WWW.onguardonline.government is another wonderful site by the Federal Trade Commission. Debbie Deem [email protected] wrote: > > >If you are having problems reading the digests please UNSUBSCRIBE then SUBSCRIBE again so you will receive digests in plain text format. > >Additional list information is on http://www.chartiers.com/pages-new/pawashin.html > >Today's Topics: > > 1. change email address (Carol Mounts) > 2. Note To All Listers (Ellen Ballas) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:51:41 -0400 >From: "Carol Mounts" <[email protected]> >Subject: [PAWASHIN] change email address >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Please change email address to >[email protected] > >Thank you, > Carol A Mounts > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:42:08 -0400 >From: "Ellen Ballas" <[email protected]> >Subject: [PAWASHIN] Note To All Listers >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Dear Listers, > >I would like to tell the listers on here how they can help if they >communicate with anyone with a Yahoo Address to be on the lookout for >getting mail that looks like it came from them but did not & mentions being >away on a trip & being robbed & needing help. > >I got one of these today & immediately called the man on the telephone in >Utah because I knew his account had to have been hacked. Not only had it >been hacked, but one of his contacts in another country had actually sent >the person money & they are looking to seeing how this can be tracked. Now >here is what they did that means the most to the person hacked. The hacker >finds your access code & immediately changes who receives their mail, so >they can get all of it instead. They also get the names of everyone in that >persons address book. > >We need to be on the lookout for this type of crime & actually see if we can >phone the person. The sooner they get the information, the sooner they can >repair the damage. I know this is not a new thing, but it's the first time >I ever got something like this myself. Thank You For Reading, Ellen Ballas > > > > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the PAWASHIN list administrator, send an email to >[email protected] > >To post a message to the PAWASHIN mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of PAWASHIN Digest, Vol 5, Issue 190 >****************************************