Re: Big Trouble in Little China?
waldo kitty <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:04:41 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.distributed-net.rc5 |
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| Organization | Waldo's Place USA - e3br42x ThunderBird |
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On 7/24/2013 03:52, Chris Jones wrote: > http://www.3news.co.nz/Baby-stuck-in-China-closer-to-coming-home/tabid/423/articleID/306182/Default.aspx#ixzz2ZvxifFsP thank you, Chris... that is much better and gave more information for searching to confirm the situation... my apologies if i offended anyone with my query and warning... > On 24/07/2013, at 2:11 PM, waldo kitty <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/23/2013 23:20, Benjamin Kaufman wrote: >>> Greg is a very good friend of Dnet as well as Mike. >> >> i understand that... i also understand that email accounts can easily be >> broken into... especially with the recent hacks... the ubuntu forums' hack >> being one of the latest known ones... >> >>> I can assure you this is no scam. >> >> you have proof outside of this list and external to dnet? please, i don't want >> to see anyone's hard earned money going to a scam artist... i spend my days >> protecting folks from scams exactly like this... in many cases, though, there >> is the "bit off" english which gives them away... they are getting better and >> somewhat harder to detect... >> >>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM, waldo kitty<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 7/23/2013 22:14, Mike Reed wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Our friend Greg and his wife Amy were returning home to New Zealand from >>>>> holidays in Europe when Amy unexpectedly gave birth to a premature baby >>>>> girl (27 weeks gestation). Mom and baby Lily are doing OK now... but >>>>> they're stuck in Shanghai for the time being. >>>> >>>> this really really really smells of recent scams about friends or family >>>> being on a trip somewhere and asking for donations to help them get home... >>>> they aren't in trouble and any donations go to the scam artist(s) and not >>>> the friends or family members... >>>> >>>> my advice is stay away unless and until this "sad story" is proven via other >>>> unrelated channels... >>>> >>>> FWIW: yes, i work with network security all the time... phishing and scams >>>> like this appears to be are quite common... -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless private contact is specifically requested and granted. _______________________________________________ rc5 mailing list rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5