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I thought this was going to be about a different scam: Taking over an email account and messaging the contacts to send e-gift cards. This happened to my real e
by drewg123 5y ago
I thought this was going to be about a different scam: Taking over an email account and messaging the contacts to send e-gift cards.
This happened to my real estate agent. I got an email from her saying "I really need to get a (Google play gift card) for a friend who is a cancer patient.". That seemed super phishy, so I texted her, and she said her email was taken over.
This was a verizon.net account that was migrated to aol. The hacker had reset her email password and created a hotmail account in her name, and was forwarding all incoming mail to the account he controlled. She regained control of the account, but he still had an active session and was still sending out phishing emails. I tried to help her, but I could not find any way to have AOL sign out all active sessions..