Posted by Sylvia_FL on 7/5/11 12:16pm
Msg #388608

Scam e-mail allegedly from Carol DeNovi

Carol DeNovi is not in London and doesn't need financial help.
Looks like her e-mail has been hacked.
I just talked to her and she is reporting it to her ISP

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 7/5/11 12:22pm
Msg #388612

I got the same thing from Beverly Nichols last week n/m

Reply by laurel/nc on 7/5/11 1:12pm
Msg #388615

Re: I got the same thing from Beverly Nichols last week

Same thing happened to me. My Face Book acct. was hacked into.

Reply by JandB on 7/5/11 2:09pm
Msg #388619

what are the odds

That makes at least 3 recent scams on people connected to NotRot. That cannot be a coincidence! Do some of you guys save each others e-mail addresses to your contacts? Or did the scammer get the address from the NotRot site. I'm an IT idiot but it has gone past my comfort level so I'm just wondering.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 7/5/11 7:47pm
Msg #388662

Mine was taken from my email address book n/m

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 7/5/11 7:48pm
Msg #388663

Even my pastor got it!! n/m

Reply by Les_CO on 7/5/11 2:26pm
Msg #388621

If anyone on this board gets an e-mail from me asking for anything (except maybe a little salt/lime/and tolerance) please disregard it.

Reply by MW/VA on 7/5/11 3:09pm
Msg #388623

I only partially know that my email address book was hacked into last week. I've never heard from anyone that they actually received an email from that event.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 7/5/11 4:33pm
Msg #388635

Mine was hacked just this weekend

So if any of you received an email from regarding a weight loss product it was not sent by me. I appologize for the inconvenience.

Reply by Sandra Clark on 7/5/11 5:26pm
Msg #388641

Re: Mine was hacked just this weekend

My email acct was hacked last week also.......

Reply by MichiganAl on 7/5/11 5:36pm
Msg #388645

Re: Mine was hacked just this weekend

Yeah, I received your email. And frankly, I was quite insulted. I AM NOT FAT!!

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 7/5/11 7:07pm
Msg #388656

No, you are not FAT!! n/m

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 7/5/11 5:47pm
Msg #388650

Hugh asked me to pass on that those Anthony Weiner type

pix, that you may have received , were not really him.
He just wishes that they were.

Reply by HisHughness on 7/5/11 5:53pm
Msg #388653

Re: Hugh asked me to pass on that those Anthony Weiner type

For all you girls who did NOT get your set, please try to hold on for a day or so. I'm having some new ones made, but there has been a glitch. The photographer is going to have to rent a larger lens.

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 7/5/11 5:59pm
Msg #388654

photographer is going to have to rent a larger lens

Telephoto , in order to photograph small objects.

Reply by MikeC/NY on 7/5/11 10:10pm
Msg #388681

It's a bit weird that more than a few people here are claiming that their email account has been hacked. If your email account has truly been hacked, you will not be able to access it - the first thing the hackers would do is change your password and lock you out. It's more likely that email addresses are being harvested here, and the bogus messages are coming from a spoofed account (someone pretending to be you and using your email address).

Without getting into the technical details, the easiest way to figure this out is to view the full message header (all email clients allow you to do that, but the how of it varies - you need to check with your email service provider). Unless the email account has actually been stolen - something that is very rare - the reply-to field will always be some email address other than the address it supposedly came from.

Reply by jba/fl on 7/6/11 1:28am
Msg #388692

Mike - good points. I am of the opinion that they are

harvesting from forwarded emails. We have all seen them - forwarded 20 times, all addresses intact from each of the twenty. Sometimes hundreds there - just one email. I know that when I forward I erase all previous ones; But I don't know what you (the person I am sending to) do. Periodically I send out that "nerd, geek" email about how to email and keep things private, but it never seems to do any good. I don't know how to hide my address from you so I'm on hit lists.

I do not correspond with Bev, yet she sent me the stranded in London email. I had already heard of this scam, so I know she didn't do it from the git-go. Did I forward something to someone who didn't delete my info and eventually it went to her via 6 other forwards? Possibly.

I have lots of dummy email accounts - perhaps if I want to forward somthing in the future I should use one of them because anything that goes to that acct. just gets deleted.? It is a problem for sure, with no clear cut answers. Some don't get it, some don't care. One just stays vigilant to stay safe.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 7/6/11 6:27am
Msg #388702

Re: Mike - good points. I am of the opinion that they are

Don't know about being harvested from forwarded e-mails.
I checked last night, and I hadn't had any contact with Carol DeNovi since 2004, when she did a signing for me. The extent of our e-mails would have been with info on the signing. Nothing that would be forwarded with lots of e-mail addresses.
Possibly a computer worm is what is doing it.

Reply by MW/VA on 7/6/11 9:15am
Msg #388716

Re: Mike - good points. I am of the opinion that they are

That's another possibility, Sylvia. It isn't coming from forwarded emails, because it was my biz email acct. that was involved. No indication other than a rash of mailer-demon messages from undeliverable messages, probably because of spam & malware filters. I'm not tech savvy enough to know how any of this kind of thing works.

Reply by Tim Donahue on 7/6/11 11:30am
Msg #388731

My wife had this happen to her too. Everyone was as calling me saying what a jerk I was for now helping my wife get home.

Also beware of fake signing services and title companies emailing saying the have a signing in your area. They will have you go to a link and fill out all your info, and then will try to bill you for a membership before they send you the "so-called" closing.

Reply by S Peterson on 7/6/11 12:16pm
Msg #388739

beware of fake signing services ...24 Hour Escrow & Notary ?

Have any of you signed up on this site. I keep getting their emails and always hit Delete. Has anyone receiving these fake or hacked emails actually signed up on a site that is still :"In Construction"? Remember Banovo? Also remember that when you go to one of these sites, they may be tracking your IP address. They'll hack into your email because they figure you have sensitive info (i.e. BO docs) inthere.

Reply by MikeC/NY on 7/6/11 7:11pm
Msg #388814

Re: beware of fake signing services ...24 Hour Escrow & Notary ?

"Also remember that when you go to one of these sites, they may be tracking your IP address. They'll hack into your email because they figure you have sensitive info (i.e. BO docs) in there."

Not really possible if you're using a router - and anyone with a wireless connection is doing that. The IP address that can be tracked in that situation is the address of the router - it is EXTREMELY difficult to get beyond that to the PCs using the router, and not worth the effort in most cases.