friends help: I need help, someone has hacked a friend’s email address and has no control over it. - Help.com

**** the hacker, don’t pay him money. Have your friend call everyone and say to ignore any messages from his email address while he sorts it out.

obviously.
I’m not that stupid
not like I have that much available anyway

and I can’t contact the person

cupy_5204 wrote:
and I can’t contact the person

Which person?

the map says I live in the middle of the ocean, on the equator
Is it usually that off?

cupy_5204 wrote:
the map says I live in the middle of the ocean, on the equatorIs it usually that off?

It can be.

both
the hacker and the friend

cupy_5204 wrote:
boththe hacker and the friend

Why can’t you contact the friend?

well aside from the said hijacked email

probably currently on an airplane

coming here

Hm. If your friends on the plane, then how long has this email been compromised?

30 maybe an hour

I was online when the email was sent

so at max, three hours

Your friend have any sensitive info on it?

Can’t he contact yahoo/msn, whoever, provide his details to prove he owns the account, have it closed?

maybe. if he knows it’s hijacked

email says he’s in nigeria on an urgent trip

give me a second while i send you the text

All you can do is wait for your friend right now, then try to get the account closed.

cupy_5204 wrote:
email says he’s in nigeria on an urgent trip

What? Are they trying to pull the nigerian scam?

Am in a hurry writing you this note,Just wanted to seek your help on something very important, you are the only person i could reach at this point, and i hope you come to my aid. Because something very terrible is happening to me now,i need a favor from you now,I had an urgent trip to Nigeria.

Unfortunately for me all my money got stolen on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my bag were my passport was ,And since then i have been without any money i am even owing the hotel here. So i have limited access to emails for now, please i need you to lend me about 2,000pounds so i can make arrangements and return back please,i have spoken to
the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now.
I will be waiting to hear from you.
Best Regards.

seems so

cupy_5204 wrote:
Am in a hurry writing you this note,Just wanted to seek your help on something very important, you are the only person i could reach at this point, and i hope you come to my aid. Because something very terrible is happening to me now,i need a favor from you now,I had an urgent trip to Nigeria. Unfortunately for me all my money got stolen on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my bag were my passport was ,And since then i have been without any money i am even owing the hotel here. So i have limited access to emails for now, please i need you to lend me about 2,000pounds so i can make arrangements and return back please,i have spoken tothe embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now.I will be waiting to hear from you.Best Regards.

Yeah, any one who received that will be smart enough to know it’s a scam, and the scammer seems just to be trying to do that, not anything else. Just wait for your friend.

and he owns a computer so there shouldn’t be a problem with that

figured as much

but do they have control of the email?

living in america I don’t have any pounds
maybe a few canadian dollars…

cupy_5204 wrote:
but do they have control of the email?

Seems so. They could be reading all his messages, gt into his other online accounts if he got verification emails to sites, depends on how far they go. But they want money, messing with him doesn’t seem to be the priority.

amazon.com account uh oh

that’s linked to the credit card and it goes downhill from there

cupy_5204 wrote:
amazon.com account uh oh

to buy something you have to sign in again, the verification link wouldn’t go that far.. I think…

you have to hope so

The scammer hopefully won’t take it so far, and even if he does, nothing you can do right now.

or hope that the scammer inexperienced as he might be, overlooked those emails
if he didn’t delete them

All you can do is wait.

hmm. do they even use pounds in nigeria?

well, thanks

cupy_5204 wrote:
hmm. do they even use pounds in nigeria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian…

nope, but they can use it I bet, the pound is worth more.

cupy_5204 wrote:
well, thanks

Welcome, hope it turns out alright.

wikipedia, always there

bye!

cupy_5204 wrote:
bye!

Bye, good luck!