I thought I would write my piece for writers group this week on my email account being hijacked. It is not political nor religious.
My Yahoo Account
By
Christine Cosser
Do you ever feel like you are a stupid idiot? I know I do. Sometimes I feel like I am the stupidest person on the face of earth, lol.
This week I had my yahoo email account hijacked and mail was sent to people in my address book asking for money to be sent to England. I was fooled to think that an email sent to me was from an official from Yahoo who needed my personal information. I know really dumb.
I heard about how dumb I was. The thing is I am a really trusting person. I like to see the good in people and I have a hard time seeing that some people are evil and do evil things. I have always needed a protector my whole life, and I guess I still do. Someone I can talk to about things and not be made to feel like a total idiot for asking their opinions on people and things. Because I am so trusting I am always getting myself in trouble which has led to situations that have caused bad things to happen to me.
Anyway, let this be a warning to all of you to never trust anyone on the internet that is sending you email asking for personal info. The criminals are really good and making the email look legal. I have even received mail claiming to be from the FBI asking for personal info. It looked real too. I got really upset over the FBI one thinking that they were going to come and arrest me any minute if I didn’t give the information they asked for. Why do people have to scare people to get them to do things?
The lesson I learned is not send anyone personal info and if I have my doubts on if it is a spam email I will ask someone first. Though I really don’t have anyone to ask, but I will try to not be fooled again. It was a really big deal having one’s id stolen and people committing crimes with your id name. I would hate for this to happen to you.
Just today in one my Catholic Email groups, they were talking about how in Canada they are having trouble with spam up there and to warn people about a certain spam mail that was going around. It is really sad that we have to be careful and not let our guard down for one minute.
I remember years ago, i got one from supposedly the FBI, asking about my computer activities. but the scammers sent the message in spanish, i had to use an online translator to see what exactly the idiots were saying. They were actually. Good thing it wasn’t in english i might have fallen for it. There are lot of very tricky ones out there. I nearly fell for the very first Paypal scam. But something made me decide to log in to paypal independently, to see if i really had a message. When i logged in i didn’t have the message, turns out it was a spoof site, if i had tried loggin in on their site(which looked remarkable legit)that would have given them my user/password. *sigh* some people just don’t want to make a decent living i guess.
Dear Friend,
You are so right. They fool people because you think they are for real. Before you know it you have been played for a sucker.
There is so much stuff going around the interent that isn’t true, but people pass off as true. One really has to be careful. I know I am to trusting and that leads me into trouble sometimes.
Best Wishes
Chrisy