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<blockquote data-quote="Jonzjob" data-source="post: 1942459" data-attributes="member: 149248"><p>We have just had an email supposedly from an old family friend. She claimed that she couldn't talk on the phone because of a bad bout of laryingitis. Quote</p><p></p><p><em>"I'm unable to speak over the phone due to a serious throat pain caused by laryngitis. <strong>Let me know once this gets you, I need a favour to ask.</strong></em></p><p><em>Best wishes, Pam"</em></p><p></p><p>It came originally with the friends full name and what looked like the correct address. Correct apart from '<a href="mailto:0101@gmal.com">0101@gmal.com</a> when it should have been <a href="mailto:01@btinternet.com">01@btinternet.com</a>.</p><p></p><p>I didn't smell a rat then and answered it asking what the favour was? She asked if we shop on amazon? then the rat started to appear especially when my sis-in-law had the same email and mailed us to ask if we had had it? I checked our other email addresses and found the same message on 3 out of the 4 of them, the forth being the only one our friend wouldn't have. </p><p></p><p>We have a MacBook Air M2 on Sonoma, an iMac M1 on Ventura and an ols iMac on High Sierra. I have blocked the sender and it shows as blocked on both the new Macs, but not on the older one and I can't find out how to do it? I would have thought the it would have blocked everything on this IP?</p><p></p><p>We then had a look at the blocked senders again and now it shows the correct address with our friend's initial, surname and a single 01@ btinternet.com. The address has changed to the correct address! How the **** can it do that?</p><p></p><p>It seems obvious that our friend's email has been hacked! I tried phoning but all I got was her answerphone and I left her a message, but I can't send her a warning email because the 'low-life thugs' will just get it!</p><p></p><p>For us it's important to warn her, BUT has it done anything nasty to our Macs and is there a way that I can check? A quick answer would be lovely as I am quite worried over this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonzjob, post: 1942459, member: 149248"] We have just had an email supposedly from an old family friend. She claimed that she couldn't talk on the phone because of a bad bout of laryingitis. Quote [I]"I'm unable to speak over the phone due to a serious throat pain caused by laryngitis. [B]Let me know once this gets you, I need a favour to ask.[/B] Best wishes, Pam"[/I] It came originally with the friends full name and what looked like the correct address. Correct apart from '[email]0101@gmal.com[/email] when it should have been [email]01@btinternet.com[/email]. I didn't smell a rat then and answered it asking what the favour was? She asked if we shop on amazon? then the rat started to appear especially when my sis-in-law had the same email and mailed us to ask if we had had it? I checked our other email addresses and found the same message on 3 out of the 4 of them, the forth being the only one our friend wouldn't have. We have a MacBook Air M2 on Sonoma, an iMac M1 on Ventura and an ols iMac on High Sierra. I have blocked the sender and it shows as blocked on both the new Macs, but not on the older one and I can't find out how to do it? I would have thought the it would have blocked everything on this IP? We then had a look at the blocked senders again and now it shows the correct address with our friend's initial, surname and a single 01@ btinternet.com. The address has changed to the correct address! How the **** can it do that? It seems obvious that our friend's email has been hacked! I tried phoning but all I got was her answerphone and I left her a message, but I can't send her a warning email because the 'low-life thugs' will just get it! For us it's important to warn her, BUT has it done anything nasty to our Macs and is there a way that I can check? A quick answer would be lovely as I am quite worried over this. [/QUOTE]
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