An attempt was made yesterday to scam me into buying iTunes gift cards by someone pretending to be a relative. I think it might be helpful for folks to see and read how they operate, so I'm pasting the full conversation here: https://pastebin.com/2hH1bNB6
This scam involved hacking a primary Email account, sending an Email with a cunningly disguised reply-to (an "o" changed to a "0" in the address), and then pretending to be in distress.
And remember, if someone you know needs money, call them.
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Did they actually get the details of your relatives correct? Just wondering how accurately have they penetrated your social network?
@kravietz it was pretty blind, they accessed her email and then sent the same requests out to everyone in her contacts with the reply-to set to their own email they had created. I tried getting them to engage more but they had a carefully scripted set of answers.