Be careful when sending information to Yahoo Messenger
Around 10 PM, I was chatting with my high school friend in YM about our kid’s pediatrician. It was our usual chat as we always talk about our kids. Our chat ended around 10:30 PM as she has to attend to her son.
At around 11 Pm, I received another message from her asking me what time it was. I answered, 11 PM and asked her where she was. She replied by saying she hit the wrong window. After that she immediately opened a conversation and asked me if I know a supplier of Globe prepaid cards as her friend from Milan will be ordering 50 pieces of P500 worth of load and Globe’s quotation is P800 per card. I might want to supply the prepaid cards if I know somebody so I can earn extra cash. She kept on saying she wanted to supply for her friend’s order but she has no money to finance it so she’s offering it to me instead. She said that I’ll be sending her via email the card number, pin, etc so she can send it to her friend in Milan. When I asked her how she can pay me, she just answered “I’ll take care of it.”
I’m already skeptical if I’m really talking to my real friend since she doesn’t talk to me that way. So I already have an inkling that somebody is impersonating my friend and is using her account. I told her I have to ask my brother because I don’t know the details so I’ll just let her know the next day since my brother is already sleeping. She said that I can just send her a text message and gave me a new number and her alibi is (which is really lame) she will be changing cell phone the next day (what a coincidence) so I can just text her sister. When I asked her what name to put for the new number (so I can verify if she really knows the name of my friend’s sisters) she just said I can just put it under her name also so I won’t get confused. And that I should delete her old number to avoid further confusion and just use the new number that she gave me.
I knew right then that this is a scam. And I confirmed it the very next day when I asked my friend if she sent me a message last night about prepaid cards.
Her account must have been hacked and the same thing happened with her friend in Singapore. Somebody asked for a cell phone load through YM.
It is really scary. So better be careful and don’t just trust somebody easily specially in the virtual world because we never can tell if we are talking to the right person or not. Good thing, I didn’t get easily fooled and I followed my gut instincts. Because if not, I could have easily been ripped out of P25, 000.
So just a reminder. Do be careful when dealing with individuals on the net.
Around 10 PM, I was chatting with my high school friend in YM about our kid’s pediatrician. It was our usual chat as we always talk about our kids. Our chat ended around 10:30 PM as she has to attend to her son.
At around 11 Pm, I received another message from her asking me what time it was. I answered, 11 PM and asked her where she was. She replied by saying she hit the wrong window. After that she immediately opened a conversation and asked me if I know a supplier of Globe prepaid cards as her friend from Milan will be ordering 50 pieces of P500 worth of load and Globe’s quotation is P800 per card. I might want to supply the prepaid cards if I know somebody so I can earn extra cash. She kept on saying she wanted to supply for her friend’s order but she has no money to finance it so she’s offering it to me instead. She said that I’ll be sending her via email the card number, pin, etc so she can send it to her friend in Milan. When I asked her how she can pay me, she just answered “I’ll take care of it.”
I’m already skeptical if I’m really talking to my real friend since she doesn’t talk to me that way. So I already have an inkling that somebody is impersonating my friend and is using her account. I told her I have to ask my brother because I don’t know the details so I’ll just let her know the next day since my brother is already sleeping. She said that I can just send her a text message and gave me a new number and her alibi is (which is really lame) she will be changing cell phone the next day (what a coincidence) so I can just text her sister. When I asked her what name to put for the new number (so I can verify if she really knows the name of my friend’s sisters) she just said I can just put it under her name also so I won’t get confused. And that I should delete her old number to avoid further confusion and just use the new number that she gave me.
I knew right then that this is a scam. And I confirmed it the very next day when I asked my friend if she sent me a message last night about prepaid cards.
Her account must have been hacked and the same thing happened with her friend in Singapore. Somebody asked for a cell phone load through YM.
It is really scary. So better be careful and don’t just trust somebody easily specially in the virtual world because we never can tell if we are talking to the right person or not. Good thing, I didn’t get easily fooled and I followed my gut instincts. Because if not, I could have easily been ripped out of P25, 000.
So just a reminder. Do be careful when dealing with individuals on the net.
2 comments:
hala thanks sa info, actually this happened to me.
prepaid cards din un hinahanap!
e kakilala ko lang thru the internet ung naghahanap kaya i ignored her insistant buzzing and messaging.
parang it did not feel right kase.
buti nalang di ko pinansin.gosh naman dami na nag ha-hack sa YM
katakot nga eh...pano kung may maloko talaga sila noh...
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