WARNING! - EMAIL Scam!

allow for contact via their email address in their profile, it's easy to get that info. I stopped using it as an option when I resigned as a Moderator so I never got that email.

Thanks, Mark, for the heads up.

TONI H

I have my new email address on file with CNET, but this came to an old email address I'd used in years past with them. Someone was working with an old list. If you have changed email address in the past 5 years, it's possible you were sent a copy, but at the old email address like I was.

turned off for some time. I was contacted a long time ago with the email account in question and if yahoo saved my email address. Message source says...

Received: from web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.XXX.XX])

So it looks like the email account has been hacked, MHO.

I hope Angeline is fine and wisk you all can contribute a few dollars to get her home(just kidding). I do hope Angeline is fine!

I would change the yahoo's security questions and passwords and/or consider closing the account and consider getting another account. Remember that all the email accounts in the address book the email was sent to. Mark, if you have access, you know what my email address is, check to see if it was saved.

Take care, EVERYONE and I ope you find a way to solve this mystery.


Rick

Everyone that got this email..

Were you contacted by the se mods with the yahoo.com email address at one time or another?


If everyone was contacted from the email address in question, then the Yahoo email account was hacked.


Rick

..or former mod, gave a computer to someone and didn't do a clean install before doing so, or left automated signin active for that account on a browser. If THAT happened, then that mod may have other problems in their personal accounts start happening too.

Could his PC have been lost when the hurricane hit and his place looted?

It's possible it was damaged and he got rid of it, but I think Dave K would have enough sense to clean it of all data first.

his is the only one that comes up as Speakeasy Moderator to be displayed....everybody else displays their correct name even with the semods4 tag, so it's possible you are right.

TONI H

I remember that and just looked again and sure enough it does say Speakeasy Moderator the way Dave K used to do it all the time. There's the other Dave (Evans) who died, but if anything odd was going to happen from his computer it already would have. But if they used Dave's moniker, why sign it as Angeline? It would mean they had checked and saw Dave K was no longer posting. Very odd, and now it seems Angeline is missing in action (sleeping in today?).

Dave K's moniker since it was basically anonymous and didn't name him, using Angeline's name would be nearly a perfect scam because more people are sympathetic to a woman via the internet and would want to 'rescue' her...a man needing financial help wouldn't normally garner that kind of sympathy I don't imagine. Unfortunately, or fortunately perhaps, that double standard still exists.

TONI H

Dave has my current email address and my old and I never got the phishing email. The mods also have my address at the Yahoo account. It doesn't look like this fisher has all of the email addresses here. My primary address, that I registered here with, is more than 13 years old now and it didn't show up there so I'm thinking the phisher doesn't have it or I was omitted on purpose for some reason.

Clay

it would take this long to show up. The hurricane was a couple of years ago, why start now? My money is on a portion of CNET getting hacked and the e-mail list stolen, but I may be wrong, If this occurs to people on other CNet fora (forums) then it's a general hack. If not, there's still the long delay to account for.

Surely the account holder is traceable through Yahoo and his location found, and a name, probably fictitious, found as well.

Rob

in Feedback, Nothing at all. We are the "lucky" ones

not from herself, so "no" due to that count. However would be interesting if she got a copy too. It's starting to look like the yahoo account got hacked (remember Palin? wasn't that yahoo also?) or someone let an address book get hacked. It would be old addresses too, at least two have said they were older ones not used much if at all now.

and while you are at it remove all the others too as you can't even open any of them.