Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Security warning! Update!

Further to our recent warning about bogus email messages purporting to have been sent to us by Jeff please note that some us are now receiving similar fraudulent messages from a source masquerading as Mike Barrett.

Mike was aware that his email account had been hacked and has got it sorted out with a lot of help from his service provider.

Do not reply to these messages. And if you know how to do it, flag them as Spam. But DO NOT REPLY.

Any of us could unwittingly become a victim of this sort of fraud, where criminals hack and take over our accounts. As background reading about this sort of crime, known generally as Phishing, please visit the UK Government's National Cyber Security Centre website.

Tim 

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Please note that our friend Jeff Tollerman's email account has been hacked and as a result numerous people in his contact list have received bogus messages which look like they have been sent by him.

The messages are not from him at all. Please don't reply to them.

Thanks 

Tim

2 comments:

Jeff said...

My IT guru seems to have disinfected my outlook email account. Hopefully this should not give you any more spam emails claiming to come from me. Profuse apologies for any concern this may have caused.
Best wishes,
Jeff

Tim C said...

It has been beneficial to us all to be reminded about this particular method of hacking into our accounts. In this case the signal in the emails many of us received was that they were not addressed to us personally. The greeting was just 'Hiya', not for example, 'Hi Tim'. And the text of the messages was something inane about buying stuff from Amazon. However the criminals rely on just the occasional person replying to the messages. Not everyone is streetwise about these methods for hacking into our accounts.