White Tail scam

• White Tail scam
  

  

  Bill

  
  

  It appears that someone has broken into White Tail's e-mail account and is begging for money. If you have e-mailed with him, you may be in his address book and thereby have gotten the scam. Writing Walter at his e-mail address to ask about it may not be effective since the scammers may be those who get your e-mail and reply to it.

  The moderators should be aware that if they have any discussion of it using their usual means, that the scammer will get any of their e-mails, and would have the ability to pretend to be White Tail in joining in any discussion.

  Bill

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  • Re: White Tail scam
    

    

    Justin

    
    

    Hi Bill

    It just so happens that I received this message in doubles and have left a message on White Tails Cell Phone. I will call him again as most likely he is traveling back down through WA. State right now and we were going to have lunch together and see the sights tomorrow in Astoria.

    Thank you for the tip and hope you have a wonderful weekend. OMG........it has been so cold up this way that my teeth are actually clicking just like a Nutcracker! LOL :-)

    With all good wishes-

    Justin~

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  • The real White Tail
    

    

    White Tail

    
    

    Bill;

    Thanks for the phone message and for posting here. I have contacted HOTMAIL and the account is closed.....one of my friends played "possum" and got some contact information which we have turned over....in the unlikely event of catching the @#(%@?!!, I WILL press charges.

    Thanks to all who left messages for me....

    Walter

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    • Re: The real White Tail
      

      

      Scooper

      
      

      A friend of ours HotMail account was also hyjacked. It is being used to phish and we still get bogus email even though he closed it out.

      Bruce

      Bill;

      Thanks for the phone message and for posting here. I have contacted HOTMAIL and the account is closed.....one of my friends played "possum" and got some contact information which we have turned over....in the unlikely event of catching the @#(%@?!!, I WILL press charges.

      Thanks to all who left messages for me....

      Walter

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  • Re: White Tail scam
    

    

    Birdman

    
    

    This scamming goes on in Yahoo too. someone broke into a friend of mine's private information and posted it in the chat room and the only way to get that info is by hacking

    That is sad

    Birdman

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  • Re: White Tail scam
    

    

    LinuxLonghair

    
    

    It appears that someone has broken into White Tail's e-mail account and is begging for money. If you have e-mailed with him, you may be in his address book and thereby have gotten the scam. Writing Walter at his e-mail address to ask about it may not be effective since the scammers may be those who get your e-mail and reply to it.

    This is why I don't use Hotmail or Yahoo; I am running my own mailservers instead. Everry few hours my POP3/IMAP server (which provides access to the user mailboxes) is hit by attempts to brute force login accounts and passwords. If there are more than a few failed logins coming from a host its IP address is firewalled automatically. This solves the problem of scammers trying to break into email accounts on my servers.

    --
    A Linux Longhair

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