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Got an unsolicited email from some guy I don’t know. Looks like fake email addresses as they are different. Not sure how the guy got my email, but be aware if you get something like this.  Mike
 
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On Mar 6, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Don Haney <avanti63@juno.com> wrote:
I need to get an Apple iTunes Gift Card for a friend of mine who is diagnosed with stage 4 mesothelioma cancer, it's her birthday but I can't do this now because I’m currently traveling for a business meeting and I'm unavailable over the phone, I am only here with my iPad. I tried purchasing it online but unfortunately, I got no luck on that. Wondering if you could help me take care of this by getting the gift cards at the store. and I'll reimburse you once I get back home. Please let me know so I can provide you the amount needed.
 
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Don Haney
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Oh, It's not a Prince in Prison with multi $$mills trying to get You to post bail ... In return He would share His wealth?

Yeah, watch out for these things.

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Really suspicious that I would get an email from someone with that email address. Especially that it changed. Mike

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On 3/7/2024 at 9:52 AM, Footer said:
Got an unsolicited email from some guy I don’t know. Looks like fake email addresses as they are different. Not sure how the guy got my email, but be aware if you get something like this.  Mike
 
 avantii63@outlook.com <avantii63@outlook.com>
On Mar 6, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Don Haney <avanti63@juno.com> wrote:
I need to get an Apple iTunes Gift Card for a friend of mine who is diagnosed with stage 4 mesothelioma cancer, it's her birthday but I can't do this now because I’m currently traveling for a business meeting and I'm unavailable over the phone, I am only here with my iPad. I tried purchasing it online but unfortunately, I got no luck on that. Wondering if you could help me take care of this by getting the gift cards at the store. and I'll reimburse you once I get back home. Please let me know so I can provide you the amount needed.
 
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Don Haney

Don Haney is listed in the 2024/2025  Avanti Membership Roster and lives in Kent, WA and uses the juno.com e-mail address.

 

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A number of times I've received emails from Bob Palma...who passed away over a year ago.  Apparently someone has hacked the SDC servers and those of the AOAI and is doing mischief with emails.

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Looks like the real Mr. Haney lives in my neck of the woods, maybe I’ll see him at a show sometime. Thanks guys. Mike

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There for a while I was getting e-mails from friends and family who never sent them. I immediately after reading them and knowing they would never say these things., I contacted em and told them their E-mail system was compromised.

I never responded to any of those e-mails. Most all of the garbage e-mails go to my Junk File. I review the titles and names sine once in a  while they are real and not spammers trying to sell me stuff. I then drag, drop the good ones into my inbox. It takes the good ones and puts them into a permanent status in the Inbox file. The rest are dumped and eliminated without reading them.

I'm getting 30-40 Junk E-s a day. I trash em all.

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I guess if we have our emails in the registry book and some hairball gets his hands on one they could cause all kinds of shenanigans. Guess I could contact Don and let him know somebody hijacked him. Mike

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It's all part of internet communications.

Sift thru the crap and avoid it... then the rest is gravy.

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