Encounter with a Hacker

The image above is a print screen of an email as well as a window on yahoo chat of my encounter with a hacker who purposely hacked and now is in the process of extorting money from the people in Sir Arnoldo Alvez' yahoo address book. .

Please, if this person will contact you and send you email. Do not believe him, he is not Sir Arnoldo Alvez. How I know? My former boss is not like that. First of all, he wouldn't ask his friends for money and he is not in UK. He is in Cebu-- Mandaue City to be exact. 

The hacker is using the yahoo email address arnoldoalvez@yahoo.com and he will not stop until anyone from the Yahoo address book of Sir Alvez will give in and give him or her the cash he wants. 

Amy, a blogger friend of mine, also a Filipina, who is now residing in the US was a victim of the same modus operandi. What's scary is that, the hacker of my friend's email is a Filipino also because the Pinay used globe to contact Amy's friends and sadly, one or two of them gave in, thinking that they were dealing with Amy. It was some sort of a business deal regarding loading, and since Amy is known to be business-minded,  her friends didn't doubt at all. 

As to this case with Mr. Alvez,  the hacker is a foreigner because he or she wanted me to speak in English while I typed some words in Tagalog. And of course, when I confronted him or her and said that I know he or she is a hacker, and I will be reporting the incident, he or she signed out, lol.. Afraid of me, I guess.

We should all be very careful about giving strangers our personal information.  Hackers and phishers are aplenty online. Sometimes, we take it forgranted, but we do have to check emails and see whether the email matches the company from which the email claims to be. Otherwise, if you click on a link within this mail, your personal info will be phished and goodbye to everything...

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