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The other day my Mrs got an email from a friend in her address book. He and his family had been held up at gunpoint in Madrid and needed money to pay their hotel bill having been robbed of everything of value. He asked if she would be able to loan him ?1,400 to pay the hotel bill etc. Money to be deposited in a bank account.


Anyway it seems that a lot of people in his address book received the same e-mail. It appears that it sounded very convincing though not being a close friend my other half didn't act on it though she now knows of someone who was about to.


I don't know if this is just a Hotmail thing or not but just a warning in case something like this happens to you.

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I don't know if this is just a Hotmail thing or not but just a warning in case something like this happens to you.




Thank you for warning us Narnia, very helpful to know (although I don't use hotmail, some of my friends are on there so I will pass this info on)


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>I don't know if this is just a Hotmail thing or not


No, and it's not even necessarily Mrs N's friend's address book that's been poached, just someone in your 'circle'. Once that's happened, any of the addresses in it can be used as a From address in a spoof email. Even someone with a totally secure system is likely to find, some time or other, that for several weeks they'll be receiving non-delivery notifications of spam, phishing, or other ill-intentioned email that has their address in the From field.


It's not so difficult to learn how to read full email headers and to work out (at least to ISP or country level) where they've really beeen sent from.

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