Email scam using Rich Yoder's name

I got it, too.  Only thing that tipped me off was the type was smaller then normal and a different  style of letter. The rats are still active.  Careful!

There has been a rash of these going around, there were a bunch with various folks names and a link to a dropbox "file" they were sharing.

He is aware of it.  Came to a bunch of us.  🤬

I sent the fraud emails to the microsoft account abuse team which is where hotmail/outlook dotcom abuse/fraud stuff goes according to Microslow.

I also got the email from "Rich" telling me he was away from home and asking me to buy iTunes and Apple gift cards for his daughter.  He would pay me as soon as he got home. Except it had the wrong email address for Rich and he would NEVER ask someone to do that.

That's another scam that surfaced several months ago.  I got half a dozen of those from different people, several of them later told me their email had been hacked.

Happens all the time.  Just check the e-mail address, and never open an attachment.  Never.

The E-mail for the upcoming Strasburrg show was sent out recently. It is a pretty safe bet the scammer/scammers got their E-mail addresses from the distribution list in the header of that E-mail. If you are sending an E-mail to a large group of people, it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

Simon

@Simon Winter posted:

... it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

^^That's "computers 101", but it's still really good advice!

Also, if you get an unusual email, hover your cursor over the sender's name - it will usually display the actual sender's email address.  If the email says it's from joe@someplace.com but hovering shows that it actually came from something that doesn't look at all like Joe's email address, don't open it and report it as spam.  (Not sure how much good that actually does, but it makes me feel better.)

And I'm still amazed at the frequency with which people on this forum put their email address and phone number in posts, especially in the sell/buy area.  Often accompanied by their real name...  smh.

I've used the "hover" trick for quite a while, but I noticed that the email we are discussing herein, and another one that I received over the weekend, show the "correct" email address when I hover - so the scum gets ever better :-(

Yep.....Got it as well.  Had to laugh about the "can you help me bit"......    I've never ever contacted Yoder, so i knew it was a B.S. scam!    Just deleted it!

@bob3 posted:

I've used the "hover" trick for quite a while, but I noticed that the email we are discussing herein, and another one that I received over the weekend, show the "correct" email address when I hover - so the scum gets ever better :-(

The trick here is to change the view of your email client to see all the message headers, then you can actually see where they come from.  This one and the one asking you to look at something in Dropbox both came with the From: address correct for the person, you have to dig deeper.

@Simon Winter posted:

The E-mail for the upcoming Strasburrg show was sent out recently. It is a pretty safe bet the scammer/scammers got their E-mail addresses from the distribution list in the header of that E-mail. If you are sending an E-mail to a large group of people, it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

Simon

Certainly a good practice to BCC but the email I got came to an account of mine not on the Strasburg distribution list.   

@Rule292 posted:

Certainly a good practice to BCC but the email I got came to an account of mine not on the Strasburg distribution list.   

Dang, I am NOT privy to any special list/lists.

To make matters even worse, I had a senior moment and completely forgot to buy those gift cards! You just can't depend on anyone these days!

Simon