Warning - Spam Private Emails To GUU Members

[JimCaravello]

I received this e-mail from a GUU Member yesterday which is a complete hoax. It is amazing, as when I responded to the e-mail, I received an identical message back and apparently who ever sent the e-mail has the ability to cut off messages before they are received by the recipient as I know I used the correct GUU member's e-mail address in responding ( I even typed it from scratch instead of just replying ) - or maybe the e-mail account has been suspended for some reason and has been hacked. In any event - be alert as you correspond with GUU members. I am sure this is someone overseas who sent the original message to me. Here is the message received ( which this member who I know pretty well would never send to me )............

How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling
to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS,


Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major
countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a
very

sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very
hard for me to explain.


I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi
where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my

way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no
money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 1000 and they wanted me to

pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the
Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I

need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1500 to feed and
help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $2500 to sort

out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a
terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself
for a

day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed
your help.


I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I
will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to


pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so
that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through

Money Gram or Western Union.

Thank you very much for your time. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best Regards,

[godwulf]

Gosh, Jim, are you sure it's a hoax?

Sure sounds sincere and legitimate to me!

[JimCaravello]

Just one point to make - the GUU system has not been hacked into - the e-mail was sent directly to my e-mail address from a GUU member's personal e-mail. Someone is looking at the site and pulling e-mail addresses off of different posts - the GUU system and contacting members through that system is safe - Jim

[camarokids]

I have temporarily pulled my email from signature, thanks for the info...

[mwbosoxfan]

Just one point to make - the GUU system has not been hacked into - the e-mail was sent directly to my e-mail address from a GUU member's personal e-mail. Someone is looking at the site and pulling e-mail addresses off of different posts - the GUU system and contacting members through that system is safe - Jim

I don't know how this works, but the same thing happened to our family. We send a monthly family e-mail around every month. Someone starts it, and then everyone adds their information, and replys to all. Everyone in the family got a similar dire straights e-mail from a family member saying he was stranded in a foreign country. Easy to say, we all know it wasn't true. Obviously, the hacker was able to get into the one family members address book, or intercept one of the family e-mails. Luckily, no one responded to the hoax.

[earlywynnfan]

Are you sure someone obtained this email address through GUF? Perhaps that person had your email saved as a contact, and got hacked. A couple months ago, mine got hacked. Not only did my contacts get erased, but I also emailed all my friends and offered to sell them a computer! (Does anyone actually fall for these scams?)

Ken

[JimCaravello]

Had to be from e-mails on the site as when I tested them for more information, they brought up topics from posts - very interesting stuff to say the least............