It seems that last week, someone or something hacked my Gmail account and sent the following message to everyone in my contacts list:
Hi,
This program is fastest and the easiest way to
create
an income stream that can gradually replace your current job or
careerGet $349,859.00 For A One-Time Fee Of $29.99!
No Advertising
And No Recruiting Required!
Guaranteed Money Within 5 Days!
No Waiting All
Payments Are Made When Due!
$455.34 In Products With Resale Rights!
Whilst this sounds like an amazing deal and is definitely something that I would urge people to do (but pay me instead of them) - I did not send it out. The message went to the first person in my contacts list with everyone else "Blind Carbon Copied" in after.
Unfortunately the message went to a couple of people that I definitely would not have wanted it to go to and I got some choice words back - but hey! It' not my fault - apologies to all.
Time to change all of my passwords and cull my contacts list methinks!
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LOL
I don’t think my reply was too harsh, it was just a very strange bit of spam!
I did laugh when I received it. Just what I thought had happend.
Mr Web scammer himself getting his email spammed.
I got it… funnily enough it landed in my works’ spam folder.