Charlie Larkin your email has been hacked.

[Bobdude]

your email has been hacked

[Casey]

He sent you $20, too? 

Did you send him a PM and let him know?

Edited December 19, 2016 by Casey

[Joe Handley]

Same here, couldn't get PM to go through though.

[blunc]

well, I guess we just can't have nice things around here. 

 

[von Zipper]

well, I guess we just can't have nice things around here. 

 

I thought it was pretty nice of Charlie to send me $20.00......................

[StevenGuthmiller]

Huh, how come I didn't get $20.00?

I thought Charlie & I were friends.

 

Steve

[Joe Handley]

LOL, when I got the email, I was thinking, why is Charlie emailing me this late.......and why is he sending me $20 to boot?!

[Chuck Most]

Well, not exactly. He is aware of the situation. I'm sure he'll chime in with the specifics at some point. 

[Eshaver]

Charlie is on Facebook and he's in my diorama group . Do ya'all want me to message him ?

[martinfan5]

Well looks like I need to un friend him, he did not want to give me $20

 

 

[charlie8575]

Boy, I really stepped in it, didn't I?

I'd like to start by apologizing if anyone was harassed or inconvenienced.

I had recently signed up for a website that I can best describe as a cross between Facebook and eBay, and its concept is built on people who know each other already. It also pays its members a share of its revenues- sort of like a co-op. The idea sounded interesting, so I decided to check it out.

I gave the site permission to open my address book, thinking I would be able to simply see who else I knew was on this, and then start connecting with them through the site.

Completely unbeknownst to me, the blasted thing basically spammed everyone I know. I've already received quite an earful from a few people, and have been apologizing profusely since yesterday morning. I was not given a chance to approve e-Mails, write a cover-letter, or much of anything else, otherwise, I think it would have gone much, much smoother. I've already given the site administration a keyboard-full because this has turned become a major annoyance for me.

The invitation e-Mail is pretty Spammy-looking, but it's legit.

And again, I'm really sorry if anyone got caught off guard or was bothered by this.

Charlie Larkin

 

[charlie8575]

Charlie and about a billion other Yahoo email users have been hacked,  including anyone replying is this very thread that might have a Yahoo email address( including me too)

Fortunately, I've changed my password at least two or three times due to other hack attempts, so I think I'm pretty safe for right now.

Charlie Larkin

[Bobdude]

You might not be out of the woods yet.I received another email an hour ago.

[peteski]

Ah, the fun with social networking.   Good luck with that.

[Joe Handley]

Sorry to here that happened Charlie, once I realized what the the email preview said, I moved it into spam without opening it and tried to pm you about it.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

To make matters worse, often times when you get a Spam/Trojan email from "someone", it is not actually THAT someone that has been hacked. Often times, it is another person that was hacked and it used that third person's email address book to make it look like the emails were sent from them.

IE: John Doe's email/PC got hacked, but Fred's email address was in John's system, so the Trojan is sent to look like it was from Fred and however many other email addresses it uses. 

[charlie8575]

You might not be out of the woods yet.I received another email an hour ago.

They make two or three attempts, like Facebook does. Delete them if you wish.

Charlie Larkin

[Joe Handley]

To make matters worse, often times when you get a Spam/Trojan email from "someone", it is not actually THAT someone that has been hacked. Often times, it is another person that was hacked and it used that third person's email address book to make it look like the emails were sent from them.

IE: John Doe's email/PC got hacked, but Fred's email address was in John's system, so the Trojan is sent to look like it was from Fred and however many other email addresses it uses. 

That's why I moved that email into the spam file without opening it and tried to pm Charlie ASAP to let him know what happened. It has since been deleted too.

[von Zipper]

..........but you're still sending me $20.00       Right ?