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
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oops! sorry Jacinta.Please give me your alternate email address.I need to contact you over the cards issue.
Its called “Phishing” pronounced fishing. and it is really really really bad! Be also careful when on internet banking. Many hackers can also fake a reputable bank’s website and you would log on thinking that it is your regular bank.
visit this site and you will see how easy it is to fake sites: https://www.phish-no-phish.com/
there is the real site and the fake site, try to find out which one is the fake one!
This is sad. But, l can’t help wondering, how was the con person going to grt out the money at western union without her particulars.e.g, ID or passport?
KSB: Making a fake ID (security number) in UK which is izzi then colluding with a WU crook agent who gets a cut of the loot. It’s simple.