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Re: Hacker Warning
Simon Ashton Email Hacker Hoax
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According to this warning message, "accepting" an email from a person named Simon Ashton, who uses the email address [[email protected]/email], will allow him to hack your email account as well as the accounts of other people on your email contact list.
However, these claims are unfounded. The "warning" is just a mutation of another hacker warning hoax that targets instant message users. As the following example indicates, the two hoaxes are very similar:
If somebody called [[email protected]/email] adds you don't accept it because its a hacker. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them you get them on your list he'll figure out Your ID, computer address, so copy and paste this message to everyone even if you hate them and fast cause if he hacks their email he hacks your mail
These bogus hacker warnings are just variations of a long-running series of hoaxes like the one shown below that claim that simply adding an email address to your list will infect you computer with a virus:
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Last edited by Mick; 23-12-2011 at 06:33.
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