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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
I was just informed by another poster here that someone, using my name
but with a return email that bounced, sent them an email begging for money to supposedly pay for a vet fee. I'm would have hoped that those who have known me well here for years now knows that I have NEVER asked for money for ANY reason - even when I was faced with a sick cat and no money in the bank (we sold some electronics on e-Bay to pay for that bill). This has me EXTREMELY upset, not only that someone is ruining my good name and reputation, but that anyone here would believe that I would send such an email in the first place - especially when a reply to that email address bounced. I have to say that my feelings are really, really hurt. If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Again, I would hope you all KNOW that I would NEVER, EVER ask for money from any of my friends, no matter what the reason. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On 12/27/2011 9:57 PM, CatNipped wrote:
I was just informed by another poster here that someone, using my name but with a return email that bounced, sent them an email begging for money to supposedly pay for a vet fee. I'm would have hoped that those who have known me well here for years now knows that I have NEVER asked for money for ANY reason - even when I was faced with a sick cat and no money in the bank (we sold some electronics on e-Bay to pay for that bill). This has me EXTREMELY upset, not only that someone is ruining my good name and reputation, but that anyone here would believe that I would send such an email in the first place - especially when a reply to that email address bounced. I have to say that my feelings are really, really hurt. If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Again, I would hope you all KNOW that I would NEVER, EVER ask for money from any of my friends, no matter what the reason. Sorry for the many typos, I guess it's obvious that I was and am still very upset about this. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On Dec 27, 7:57*pm, CatNipped wrote:
.. If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Would it be the one with a link to http://www.kapipal.com/hopeforbillie? in the text? I got it Hope this helps Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On Dec 28, 11:01*am, Lesley wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:57*pm, CatNipped wrote: . If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Would it be the one with a link to *http://www.kapipal.com/hopeforbillie? in the text? *I got it Hope this helps Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs This must be a scam. It went around last spring, also. Same cat, same photo, same story. They raised $500. Google still has the original page archived - it says "Fundraiser is over." Now it looks like they're just starting over with the same story. "Billie needs all her teeth pulled or be euthanized." It sounds perfectly plausible to me that they'd harvest addresses from this ng for internet begging purposes though I haven't gotten one. Sherry 1) She should have already had Billie's teeth pull |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:57:31 -0600, CatNipped
wrote: I was just informed by another poster here that someone, using my name but with a return email that bounced, sent them an email begging for money to supposedly pay for a vet fee. I'm would have hoped that those who have known me well here for years now knows that I have NEVER asked for money for ANY reason - even when I was faced with a sick cat and no money in the bank (we sold some electronics on e-Bay to pay for that bill). This has me EXTREMELY upset, not only that someone is ruining my good name and reputation, but that anyone here would believe that I would send such an email in the first place - especially when a reply to that email address bounced. I have to say that my feelings are really, really hurt. If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Again, I would hope you all KNOW that I would NEVER, EVER ask for money from any of my friends, no matter what the reason. It's an old scam. It's nothing personal towards you sweety. They've been doing it for decades. Harvest an email address and send begging messages to all and sundry (usually everyone in their address book) claiming to be that person in acute financial distress for some vaguelly plausible-sounding reason (eg. I'm in a foreign country and my papers and wallet were stolen, animal in urgent need of an operation, etc etc.), please send money immediately... then sit back and wait to see who's gullible enough to bite without checking. |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
"Pat" wrote in message ... Here's her twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/katiesatchley Is that who is responsible? Lori is really upset with me atm for e-mailing her back to object to a mail I thought she sent to my private e-mail address which only a few know. Which raises another question. How did this person, Katie, get hold of my private e-mail address? I don't use it to post to the group. Weird. Tweed |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On 12/28/2011 11:01 AM, Lesley wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:57 pm, wrote: . If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Would it be the one with a link to http://www.kapipal.com/hopeforbillie? in the text? I got it Hope this helps Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Yes that was it! The email directing this person to this site was signed "CatNipped" but it most CERTAINLY was not me! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On 12/28/2011 11:01 AM, Lesley wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:57 pm, wrote: . If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Would it be the one with a link to http://www.kapipal.com/hopeforbillie? in the text? I got it Hope this helps Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Thanks Lesley - I'm afraid they may have hacked into my email account to get these addresses (thankfully I don't do a lot of offline emailing so they won't get a great deal of data). If you would send me your note I'll use those headers and the other information provided here and try to put together enough evidence to get this person convicted for identity fraud. This is NOT a nice thing to do to me! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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Email From Somebody Claiming to Be Me
On Dec 28, 3:09*pm, CatNipped wrote:
On 12/28/2011 11:01 AM, Lesley wrote: On Dec 27, 7:57 pm, *wrote: . If you ever receive such an email, please let me know and send me the email address it was sent from because if I EVER find out who is doing this I will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Would it be the one with a link to *http://www.kapipal.com/hopeforbillie? in the text? *I got it Hope this helps Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Yes that was it! *The email directing this person to this site was signed "CatNipped" but it most CERTAINLY was not me! -- Hugs, CatNipped You could go to the Kapipal website and lodge a complaint. Regardless of who sent the spam out, "Kati" is likely responsible as she is the one who benefits. It's bad enough she's playing on emotions for what's probably a scam, but faking emails is way over the line. Sherry |
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