<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, it is sad ...</div><div><br></div><div>A while back, I started putting examples of scam emails on my web site, as a warning. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://baheyeldin.com/technology/technology-in-society/internet-scams-and-fraud.html" target="_blank">https://baheyeldin.com/technology/technology-in-society/internet-scams-and-fraud.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The
sadder thing is that people mistake my site for other people, from
Cairo hotels, the Library of Alexandria, all the way to the Sultan of
Brunei<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://baheyeldin.com/technology-in-society/mistaken-identity-how-some-people-confuse-my-site-for-others.html" target="_blank">https://baheyeldin.com/technology-in-society/mistaken-identity-how-some-people-confuse-my-site-for-others.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I
got many emails about people who have actually paid scammers for
lottery winnings or other scams, and asking what to do next. Convincing
them that they have been a victim of a scam is painful. Many of them are
from poor countries and have borrowed to pay
insurance/bank/taxes/courier fees in the hope of getting more money ... <br></div><div><br></div><div>With
social media, and friends posting things without basic fact checking,
it has become even worse, and more of a futile effort ... not outright
money scams, but scams in other aspects of life ... </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:10 AM Yas Adem <<a href="mailto:yadem.ethio@gmail.com">yadem.ethio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thanks guys. I won't spent much time on it... i was just curious.. lots of old people get scams on this and really sad.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yasin</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 AM Khalid Baheyeldin, <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The From address can be forged, so it is not necessarily that his email is hacked. <br></div><div><br></div><div>If you look into the email headers, which in Gmail are under 'Show Original', they may give a clue as to what server it came from. <br></div><div><br></div><div>But don't spend too much time on it, since it can be anything. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:51 AM Yas Adem <<a href="mailto:yadem.ethio@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">yadem.ethio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hey Guys, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">i just received an email from friend i know and interestingly reply-to is different email address. This email is basically asking to purchase Google Play pay gift cards for him as he is in hospital helping relative, in short i believe his email has been hacked. I am not expert on this butis there a way to trace back to thier source ip.. etc.. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto">Yasin</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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