I had an email that suggested a few years back that you should have in your contacts list the email address     aaaaaaaaa@aaa.aaa   and this might stop hackers from accessing your list.  Sandy  (Glentrool) ________________________________ From: Joe Hay <jphay@hotmail.com> To: RENFREW County list <sct-renfrew@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, 24 July, 2010 7:46:26 Subject: [SCT-RENFREW] Off Topic ...but vital. Please read if you know Jean Old on this list. This is a warning! A hacker MAY have acquired the contacts for LIST MEMBER JEAN OLD. I received a suspicious email, supposedly from Jean, asking for money. I had another friend who had this happen with her contacts and I received a similar email request. This is the subject:  Terrible Situation - Urgent Help Needed !!!! This is the letter: I'm writing this with tears in my eye, my family and I came down here to Malaga, Spain for a short vacation unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed, all cash, credit card and cell were stolen off  us at GUN POINT but luckily for us we still have our passports with us. We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves today but we're having problems settling the hotel bills, and the hotel  manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills, I'm freaked out at the moment and wondering if you could help us with a quick loan, I promise I'll refund it once we get home. Please save me from the embarrassment of not being able to cover the bills. Thanks -- Jean NAMES I AM SEARCHING MCSHANE WELSH VANCE LYNCH ONEIL CHRISTIE RAFFERTY,MCCONNELL TACKNEY BROGAN MCHALE THORNTON COYLE MULHEARN MCGURK AND HALF OF SCOTLAND LOL DO NOT use her email address to try & contact her or you could be hacked too! Eventually someone close to Jean will know that she is not stranded in Spain & alert her.                         _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-RENFREW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sorry to say Sandy But that is an urban myth and does not work It could lead some into a false sense of security The best advice is good anti virus, updated daily and *never* click executable links in emails that you are not 100% sure where they came from or open unsolicited attachments Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) I had an email that suggested a few years back that you should have in your contacts list the email address aaaaaaaaa@aaa.aaa and this might stop hackers from accessing your list. Sandy (Glentrool)