Foreveryoung wrote:
justagirl wrote:
I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, my family and I down here to Madrid, Spain for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where we lodged. All cash, credit cards and mobile phone were stolen from us. thank God we still have our passport ID with us, We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all, our flight leaves today and We're having problems settling the hotel bills, we still have some money in our account but we don't have access to it right from here.
The hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the hotel bills(€2,000 EUR)now am freaked out. Please reply and let me if can you have the money wire to us through Western Union we promise to pay back as soon as we get back home.
Regards
Justagirl
Anyone want to sending me some cash! Please save me
I assume this was not a real request?
This is not a real request ~ It's a scam alert ~
Didn't mean to alarm you
Just trying to say, if you fall for an email from a friend like this
You will lose your money
and if you respond the hacker will likely take your money then gain access to your email account and repeat process
If you do see this in your emails or if this happens to you. You are to notify the police.
This is an email scam/virus that a friend has open via an email (they will insert your friends name like the email came from him/her)
The hacker then takes your friends email address's, and sends a similar email (to the one above) out to everyone your friend has ever emailed
He also takes over the access of your friends email account, inhabiting them access
By the time your friend gets access to his account, the hacker has erased all his contacts
And hopefully his/her friends and colleges are smart enough not to send any money