Just received this email from someone with an email address- a.altar@yahoo.com. I copied it exactly word per word, so just forgive the grammar or any offensive words, if there are some...
From: JASON MANLY <sertanorth@shaw.ca>
To:
Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012, 6:10
Subject: Do You Want To Dead or Alive?
Usually i don't do this but this is the only way I could contact you for now, I want you to be very careful about this and keep this secret with you until I make out space for us to see. You have no need of knowing who I am or where i am from. I know this may sound very surprising to you but it’s the situation. I have been paid some ransom in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer. It’s someone I believe you call a friend, I have followed you closely for a while now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusations leveled against you. Do not contact the police or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do, I will know, and I might be pushed to do what I have been paid to do.Besides, this is the first time I turn out to be a betrayer in my job. I took pity on you and your family. That is why I have made up my mind to help you. Reply me as soon as you get this mail or i will be left with no choice than to terminate you.
If you are willing to help yourself and not make your family attend your untimely death reply me asap.There is no time to waste..Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad..
Though threats or extortions like this must not be taken lightly, stiill we should choose to be skeptical and wise in dealing with such matter. Googling "hit man scam or hoax", we found a lot of messages with similar word patterns received by different people around the world. A site even said that Federal agents are already investigating this unsolicited form of spam. Further, they warned recipients not to reply to these messages as aside from asking for a sum of money, they may persuade you to share personal data to steal your identity.
In the first place, you shouldn't get scared or affected by such threats as long as your conscience is clear and you are not stepping on somebody else's foot.
What people would do, just to take advantages of others and earn easy cash. I hope authorities would capture these perpetrators as to give justice to their victims, especially to those who suffered a lot... financially or emotionally. May Yahweh open these people's eyes as to their wrongdoings.
This messages should be ignored, just like those asking for help and everything.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite skeptical when it comes to my emails. Lots of things are going around, from those that are infected with malware to scams. Ever since I started using an email, my rule of thumb has always been if you're not sure about the sender, don't open.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, I've been receiving spam mails about guys from Africa needing help with bank transfers and such. Now this? These people are getting more and more creative everyday. If only they'd use their creativity somewhere more productive and socially uplifting.
ReplyDeleteThis is real scary but you are right as long as you haven't done anything wrong, you'll should be fine and don't need to panic.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, thanks for this informative post!
ReplyDeleteAnother thrash message. Just ignore this type of messages.
ReplyDeleteI've been receiving a lot of spam mails but I just ignore and delete them.
ReplyDeleteas long as they don't know where you live....wait what am i suggesting? o.o
ReplyDeleteI used to run a blog I call SPAM-ADS since I was receiving a lot of spam emails and some are really interesting so I want to put them in one place for others to read as well, but I was not able to maintain since there so much of them...
ReplyDeleteThis is scary, though I received some emails before but it was asking for some help.. thanks for sharing this! we need to be vigilant and be wise over the internet.
ReplyDeleteI also receive this kind of an email letter. But I ignored it. Nothing to worry about this it is a kind of a HOAX. But we have to be vigilant, hackers are everywhere indeed.
ReplyDeletescary! and i hate it when their spamming like that! :(
ReplyDeleteRovie
This is really scary. But you know there are lots of spammers out there. And you are right, as long as your conscience is clear there's nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteYes this is great advise. Whenever you received something out of the ordinary emails, the first thing is to google it. And definitely 99.99% it will be a hoax!
ReplyDeleteThis work will go nowhere and I hope they get caught.
ReplyDeleteFor those people who are non techie and do not open their emails often time than we do, this kind of email is scary. Good thing you bloged about it so others will know.
ReplyDeleteWell, kung dito lang naman sa Pilipinas yan, hinding hindi mag-email ang hitman eh. Haha.. They only want money. At sana, mahuli na sila.
ReplyDeletei received spam messages like this.. just ignore it and trash!
ReplyDeleteOh my GOD! it's now very easy to send messages like this because of the internet. People are being harassed and blackmailed. This is alarming. May GOD intervene...
ReplyDeleteFor me, all spam mails goes to the garbage can especially with dubious subjects.
ReplyDeleteAlthough obviously a hoax, this is still disturbing so rather than read one, I usually do not open emails from unknown addresses.
ReplyDeletekind of scary... I don't get it why they do such things..?? Cheers~! - Justin - The World According To Me
ReplyDelete