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Adventures in Cyber Crime

First off. And this is important!

If any of the family and friends this blog is intended for ever gets any kind of an e-mail from one of our e-mail accounts, but one that is used for direct contact of some of you readers, and its asking for money- DON'T send it! We would NEVER ask for any money via an e-mail like that African Prince!!

We would really hope you'd call and ask us about anything like that and not just send it!

This all started yesterday evening when Sandy, who's in Mumbai India, got an e-mail on her i-phone she thought was from Stacy, asking for $500 for an "emergency". She thought something wasn't quite right and attempted to contact the sender. She said it went to a local (for us) person, so she called Stacy who is in Boise and Stacy called me a bit upset about it.
With the other side of the world time difference, I'm hoping Sandy will get back to me today with more info about it all.
Now its the next day and after changing some things, at this point I'm thinking (hoping!) this is an isolated incident and that Sandy is correct, somehow one of Stacy's juvenile delinquents that are her "clients" somehow got the account and password info. Don't know how that would have been possible but obviously somebody did. I hopefully can get a better idea about it all when Sandy can get back to me.

Last month we had to get new credit cards because someone had ordered almost $500 of stuff from Wal Mart.com a little after Christmas. Luckily the cards security caught it and called us about it since we don't usually make anywhere near that large a purchase and especially at that site since there's a local super center.

Again, I'm hoping this is an isolated event!

When we were still in California one of the people I supervised had her whole identity stolen! A person had set up accounts in the L.A. area in her name and social security number and this girl found out about it when the $30,000 car she hadn't bought went into default for non payment! It took her over two years to get it sorted out including a new social security number, the whole works!

Things can always be better, but they also can often be a lot worse!

Tad

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