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Jacinter Njoroge’s Email Account Hacked

A hacker has gained access to Mrs. Jacinter Njoroge’s hotmail account and has sent a mail claiming that Jacinter is stuck in London. The mails are being sent to everybody in Jacinter’s address book while the hacker is requesting friends to send 3.000 British pounds to be refunded by Jacinter once she is out of trouble. The email reads as follows:

“Did you get my previous message ,I sent you an email some hours ago,I left for United Kingdom and i was robbed on my way to the hotel please can you learn me 3000 Pounds today i will return it as soon as i arrive.You can send it through Western Union with my information below

Receivers Name: Jacinta Njoroge-lahti
location/Address:35A Gloucester Road, London, United Kingdom. I will wait to get the Western Union senders details with the MTCN number.Please take this as urgent.

Thanks Auntie J”

This hacking technique is common and last year, Catherine, a Kenya-Stockholmer also fell victim. The hacker gains access to logs of an email address through “Phishing”, a technique in which the hacker mimics a web site or sends mail purportedly from a mail server admin asking for account password on ground that emails are in the process of being verified. The hacker warns that failure to provide details may result in an email account being closed in two weeks.

Jacinter would like to inform all Kenyans, friends and contacts that she is safe in Stockholm and not in any problem. She said that contacts should ignore the email. She is currently unable to access her email account because the hacker has changed the password. She is trying to sort out the problem.

Okoth Osewe

January 25, 2010 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 3 Comments