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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

!!!! WARNING !!! Hakers asking for money to be sent via Western Union and ...

Yeah, what gives Joseph where's my hacked email? ;)

In all seriousness, normally this is obviously a scam but it occured to me that in our profession it's actually not that absurd of a situation to be in seeing how much many of us travel. Then again *ANYTHING* involving western union on the internet is almost certainly a scam.
 
I got an email from him as well, I knew it was a scam instantly, I've heard of this happening before, but with someone's Facebook account (same exact setup, mugging, etc). Really sorry for him...I wish I could have gotten more info from the guy who got into his account, but there probably wouldn't be anything you could do legally anyway. :-/
 
Thanks guys,

It took me awhile to regain possession of my account. What makes me most upset is not that he emailed EVERY single person in my contact list, he proceeded to delete EVERY CONTACT and EMAIL I had compiled since 2008. Ugh!!

Thanks to people like Ketch, Ron, and others from RED like Jarred who called to catch up with me today. In the face of such indecency, it really brought the best out of all who really love me...
 
Joseph Hutson said:
Thanks guys,

It took me awhile to regain possession of my account. What makes me most upset is not that he emailed EVERY single person in my contact list, he proceeded to delete EVERY CONTACT and EMAIL I had compiled since 2008. Ugh!!

Thanks to people like Ketch, Ron, and others from RED like Jarred who called to catch up with me today. In the face of such indecency, it really brought the best out of all who really love me...
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That is really bad vibe, sad to hear. That was a weird day indeed.
 
Steve Gibby said:
Hey Ketch,

I got that same exact email from "Joseph Hutson", but after reading it I knew immediately it was a total scam. These scumbags apparently hacked Joseph's email address book and shot those emails off to everyone in it.

Joseph would know better than to email me from "London" asking for emergency funds - he never emails me, he texts me when he has a question.

Some dumb ass actually felt that we'd fall for that. My advice to whoever sent those emails is for him to grab his left ear with his right hand, then also grab his right ear with his left hand - then simply pulls his head out of his ass!!

Time to beef up the firewall on your laptop Joseph :-)))
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Well, yeah Steve, the first hint should have been the fact that the email started with "Hi" instead of hey Ketch, how are you? as Joseph's concern has always been first how I am doing,
any time He communicates with me, then of course the way the Scammer goes about it too.

At the end glad Joseph its okay, and sorry about the account been Hacked, a real pain loosing all his contacts and have to go thru this, also glad none of us here so far has fallen for this idiots!!



Joseph Hutson said:
Thanks guys,

It took me awhile to regain possession of my account. What makes me most upset is not that he emailed EVERY single person in my contact list, he proceeded to delete EVERY CONTACT and EMAIL I had compiled since 2008. Ugh!!

Thanks to people like Ketch, Ron, and others from RED like Jarred who called to catch up with me today. In the face of such indecency, it really brought the best out of all who really love me...
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My pleasure Joseph, just really glad you are okay, got real scared there for a minute, and sorry again about this happening to you and the S%$#@
you have to go thru to get your contacts back since 2008, I can't imagine what I would do if I lost so many years of contacts info... :(
 
Hey, I didn't get a scam email.... ;) That's probably a good thing, though. Glad you regained possession of your email account. Watch out for those public wifi connections and other situations where you shouldn't be entering passwords or transmitting / viewing sensitive info. Like Steve said, beefing up your onboard firewall is probably a good idea, but in reality the info was probably snagged from a poorly secured wifi connection. Most public or free systems are typically an example of poor security. Starbucks, and other places like it, are a hacker's wet-dream come true. Additionally, if you have recently requested a password to your email account and had it emailed to you at another account or something like that, it could be that email was intercepted. Any time you have a system email you a password that you have forgotten, the first thing you should do is log in and change it to something else.
 
I'm really not sure how this happened. I've been at Camp RED all week with extremely limited access to Internet and the outside world. I haven't used my computer for Internet in quite some time, due to my iPhone.

Thanks to my iPhone, I still have my contacts. What I don't have, though...is my entire collection of emails. This includes proof of invoices, business receipts, and a whole myriad of things we take for granted to just always be in our searchable email accounts. :(
 
Email providers such as gmail or hotmail should provide an easy way to back up email folders.
 
Luis de la Cerda said:
Email providers such as gmail or hotmail should provide an easy way to back up email folders.
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You can export, what is a better back up than that, having the data in a different place!
 
SCAM

SCAM

Hi,
I think they chose the WRONG GUY.....Right?
Harcharan
 
Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock said:
So, you should never check your email on a public WLAN?
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You should never access personal or work-related things from such places because they obviously don't employ any kind of encryption. If you want to just surf the web while enjoying food and drink, go ahead and do so with no worries, but that is as far as you should take it.
 
Rough luck, Joseph, and bad timing for sure! I'm glad nothing serious came of it.

Stephen Williams said:
You can export, what is a better back up than that, having the data in a different place!
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+1

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There are a lot of things I hate about the "cloud" atmosphere that is coming up now, but this thread touches on a couple.

As Jeff mentioned, when all of your stuff is "out there" you have to send all sorts of data over networks to get it and bring it back - which just makes for rich pickings in public places like libraries or coffee shops.

Second, as Joseph alluded to, it leads to data complacency. Having data "out there" seems to negate our human understanding of how easily it may go away and the efforts we need to go to protect it if it is truly important.

Third, it can endanger others. It's one thing to have your own personal information stolen. But if all kinds of business content is uploaded somewhere, or private and confidential emails are hanging about...what kind of havoc might a snoop be able to wreak with just one username/password combo? And as Jeff also pointed out...how many other username/password combos does that access give them because I "Lost my Password, please send me a new one in plain text in the body of an e-mail with a convenient 'New Password' subject line, thanks."

:rant:
 
Like the old chain analogy, a network is only as secure as its weakest link. In public places, which are typically open ended WLAN's that have no meaningful security, all your peers on the network can potentially have just as much access to your system as any system you would have on your own or office LAN. It's pretty easy to keep the info on your own system secure with a decent firewall and user security settings. The real threat comes from the info you send out, over that public WLAN. Since there's no direct access controls or proper encryption, you never know who could be monitoring or "sniffing" the various data packets that are whizzing around. The "ghost" or "phantoms" are the ones you really have to watch out for, these are the hackers and thieves who are not interested in connecting to the network themselves. They simply hang out and observe/sniff/record network traffic. They can steal session information, markers and cookies. Then load up a browser window on their notebook, attaching to a web site like Reduser, Facebook, Gmail, twitter, etc.. Just as if you had opened a new browser window on your own computer. With the right tools and know-how, a competent hacker can even steal info secured via SSL and/or monitor SSL or participate in SSL connections.

These are all very real threats that occur more often than people realize. My IT company is constantly dealing with this stuff, we try to convince our clients that the expense of 3G or 4G wireless data solutions are worth it in the end. Most providers of such allow tethering or personal hotspots via smart phones these days or dedicated connection adapters. While there is never any 100% guaranty, these are infinitely more secure than the typical free and open WLAN at a cafe.

Generally speaking, I avoid sending any detailed info, login information, banking info, including making purchases via open WLANs or wifi hotspots. As others have pointed out, they're good for casual surfing while relaxing or whatnot. Most such open systems, at least the ones around here from corporate providers (Starbucks, McDonald's, etc..), warn of the risks when you agree to sign on. But most people don't think of it, or even bother to read the fine print of the disclaimer.
 
Malvin Ng said:
Hey ketch, are you ever going to reply to the e-mail I sent you about your EPIC-X brokering thing ?
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Melvin, I reply to an average of 130/150 emails per day, possibly yours slipped out of sigh, as some times I reply on my MBP, some times on my MBA and some times on the iPad,
and some times on the iPhone, so you see how that could happen he he, sorry about that, please send it again to: ketchrossi@ketchrossistudios.com

PM'd you as well.
 
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