[aklug] Re: high-jacked email accounts

Uh, I don't think you quite read my first post the way I intended.

They are not sending her emails. They have control of her Yahoo account
and are using it to send email to the people in her address book. The
headers are legitimate headers for her account.

Jim G

Update - They have set up a new yahoo email address w/ a reply address
one letter different from her normal email address identifying where to
wire money via Western Union.

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:48 -0700, Peter Michael wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Sorry I should have mentioned that she or you need to open one of
> those messages that are being sent out not her email exactly. The full
> headers in it have the tracking information as to the source ip and
> location of servers sending the email, even if they have highjacked
> the account...
>
> Peter
>
> --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
> Subject: [aklug] high-jacked email accounts
> To: "aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 12:34 PM
>
> Anybody have any experience as to who and how to get a hold of
> someone @
> yahoo concerning a high-jacked email account.
>
> A friend of mine just had it happen. Someone seems to have
> gained
> control of her yahoo account and is using it to send out
> emails telling
> everyone in her address book that she is stranded in Brighton
> England
> due to a mugging and needs $2000 desperately to settle her
> hotel bill
> and get to the airport.
>
> She now can't get into her account. Hopefully it's because
> yahoo got
> wind of it and locked it. I think it's more likely the thieves
> just
> changed the access.
>
> Jim G
>
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