Another Phishing Scam

The other day, my brother’s Hotmail (Outlook.com) email account got hacked.

First, I received an email from his account with the subject of ‘Favor’ and it said:

I need you to do me a favor. Please reply when you get this.

Not realizing that it was a hacker, I replied: “Got it”.

Then I got the following email from the hacker:

I am currently out of town and need to send some money to my cousin in Manila, Philippines through western union or money gram but cant send out from here presently. Don’t know if you can help me with the transfer, will look for how to get the money back to you as soon as possible.

What I need across is $2500. Find details below.

Receiver Name: Stanley Lacroix
Address: 210 Quezon City; Metro Manila; Philippines
Phone Number is: +639164348330

Let me know if you can handle this and I promise to give it back to you by Next week when I get back.

Let me know the details of the transfers when done.

First, thing that came out of my mouth was WTF!!!.

I replied with:

I’m guessing your account has been hacked.

If the hacker is reading then piss-off & get a life.

You gotta have fun in life. 🙂

I promptly called my brother to make sure that he immediately changed his password and run virus scans on his PC. Luckily, a different friend of his had already called him saying it was a scam.

I’m posting the above emails so that other people who do an internet search and stumble upon my postings, will realize that THEY ARE BEING SCAMMED.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix