My E-Mail Has Been Hacked & Someone is Sending Out False Information

[ElisabethWhispers]

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from hotmail asking for verification of my information. It seemed bogus but I was tired and sent back my e-mail and password. This morning, I could not access my elisabethwhispers@hotmail.com account and so wrote a report to microsoft.

NOW, I've already received two calls from friends in the East saying that they've received a note from "me" asking for money and saying that I'm stuck in England and to please send $2500.

THIS E-MAIL IS FALSE. I AM IN DALLAS. PROMISE!

I'm very upset. To say I'm very upset is an understatement. I was told that I fell for the oldest trick in the book and my friend from Boston just forwarded the e-mail to me and here it is:

From: Elisabeth Whispers <elisabethwhispers@hotmail.c om >
> Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP
> To:
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 5:17 AM
>

Hi
> Glad to reach you via email,hope that everything is
> fine. I'm sorry for not letting you know that I'm
> currently on a trip to ENGLAND for a seminar,Unfortunately I
> misplaced my wallet where my money and other valuables
> document were kept, on my way to the hotel room. And I'm
> sending this message to you,because I need your urgent
> assistance with a loan of $2,500 to sort-out my hotel
> bills,feeding and get myself back home as soon as possible.
>
> I will really appreciate whatever you can do to assist me
> out of my financial problem and promised Il refund the money
> back as soon as I returned home. So, please kindly do what
> you can,to save me from this embarassment.Hope to read from
> you soon.
>
> Best regards
###
It is signed with my REAL name.

One friend in Boston said that her computer was infected by a virus but she cleaned it. Could be a coincidence but I'm so upset right now that I wanted everyone to know that this is not me!

I have had this address for over five years so God knows who this message is going to.

ANY advice, including ways to help me calm down, would be appreciated. And if you get this note, please let me know. I'm going to try to contact as many folks as I can to let them know this is a false message.

I have changed my contact e-mail, for now, to elisabethwhispers@yahoo.com

Thanks,
Elisabeth

[carkido45]

Yup old scam. Sorry that happen to you hope someone can help you fix that. I thnik I saw that stuff on sixty minutes.

[carkido45]

You may want to get your computer looked at also no telling what other nasty lil bugs and spyware and keyloggers may be in there a simple scan may not be enough to detect what's really in there.

[internet_inventor2]

I agree with CarKido, get your computer checked and run your home virus/trojan/spyware/malware detection devices. They probably wont have to scrub the hard drive or nothing since technically you werent hacked, your password was given out and they probably just used your account, but I dont know crap ..... Geek Squad maybe ?

[AlexisSoftTouch]

EW, I was dealing with the same coming from clients I already knew.. My clients got back to be and let me know they had not sent out the email.. Here is a posted I started about it in Coed
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Bad bug!!

[Dstorm]

Somebody pulled this on facebook and it made the news a few months back.