My Yahoo email account has been attacked and someone in Scotland, using my addy, is asking everyone on my Yahoo mailing list to send them money because I am supposed to be stranded there. I have kept copies of the emails forwarded to me by some of my friends. My contact list in Yahoo has also be changed, so that i cannot access it to tell my contacts about the scam. The addy being high-jacked is: [email protected]. Her is the text from their last email to my friend:
Forwarded message
From: Royal Garrison
Date: Mon, Dec 6 at 1:39 AM
Subject: Western Union Details...
To: Rebecca Marie Melvin
Glad you replied back. We have nothing left on us right now and our flight leaves today we are lucky to have our lives and passports cos it would have been worst if they had made away with it. Well all we need now is a loan of $2,650 to sort our bills and you can have it wired to my name via Western Union cos our flight leaves today, i promise to pay you back as soon as we get back home. Here's my info below.
Royal Garrison
10 County Road, Perth, PH2 8EE
Scotland, United Kingdom.
As soon as you are done with the transfer kindly get back to me with the Confirmation # MTCN for me to pick up the money.
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