RE: [Cz-L] Suspected scam

This is a very typical scam. An excerpt from an alert describing the
scam is below:

The usual sob story: I was robbed at gunpoint and lost everything. This
scam actually starts weeks or months earlier, with the hacking of
someone else's e-mail account-not yours. The hacking is usually done in
one of two ways, says John Kane of the National White Collar Crime
Center, which runs the Internet Crime Complaint Center with the FBI.
 
Scammers can infect an e-mail user's computer with malware that logs
keystrokes, providing the crooks with account user names and passwords.
Typically, the malware is installed invisibly when the computer user
clicks on an enticing online link.
 
Another approach scammers use is to distribute "phishing" e-mails-such
as information requests purporting to be from your e-mail provider or
bank-and collect passwords and other personal data that allow the
hacking. They send millions of phishing messages at a time, "so even if
their response rate is a fraction of a percent, that's a lot of
potential victims," says Kane.
 
Once they have a user name and password, the scammers sign on, and may
change the password-with that, they take control of the account and lock
the real owner out. Then they send out a stranded-friend plea to you and
other people on the account's contacts list.
 
This type of swindle was detailed last year by Scam Alert, but recent
activity has triggered new warnings this summer from the Internet Crime
Complaint Center, the FBI and others.

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-72481880-3499416_at_list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-72481880-3499416_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam
Taylor
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 10:47 AM
To: Genealogy and History Czernowitz
Subject: [Cz-L] Suspected scam

I received a message, supposedly from Ronald Banner, a member of this
list, claiming that he is in Manila and asking for assistance. I
strongly believe that this is a scam, Did anyone else receive a similar
Email?

Mimi

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