Ray Crowe "help" email scam

Fendamonky · 09-07-2015, 09:04 AM

I'm not sure what you mean... I've been in the rotary community for 9 years and this is the first time I've seen a pillar of thd community get their email hacked and used to send our phishing type scam mails..

Pete_89T2 · 09-07-2015, 09:52 AM

^Same here. This kind of scam isn't new, and it's not something that just happens in the rotary community.

In this case, the scammers just happened to compromise Ray's email account, put 2+2 together and made an educated guess from email contents that everyone on Ray's contact list are probably all friends of his, and they used the friendship/sympathy angle to try to scam us all out of cash shotgun style. If 1 out of 100 of us on Ray's contact list fell for it, they would be ahead of the game. No different than any other online scam.

09-07-2015, 09:52 AM	#2
Pete_89T2 Lifetime Rotorhead Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Elkton, MD Posts: 874 Rep Power: 16	^Same here. This kind of scam isn't new, and it's not something that just happens in the rotary community. In this case, the scammers just happened to compromise Ray's email account, put 2+2 together and made an educated guess from email contents that everyone on Ray's contact list are probably all friends of his, and they used the friendship/sympathy angle to try to scam us all out of cash shotgun style. If 1 out of 100 of us on Ray's contact list fell for it, they would be ahead of the game. No different than any other online scam.