Holy name abused yet again to mask a scam
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Sometime earlier, I had written on how Nigerian fraudsters were using the name of the Church to commit email scams. Well, fraudsters are at it again! This time they hacked their way inside the online mailbox of a Benedictine Monk.
Dom Donald McGlynn was previously Abbot of the Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian, Scotland. Truant fraudsters have stolen his email-identity to set off an email scam all over the world, and especially on people figuring in his address book.
The email tells a story to its recipients of how the monk has come to be waylaid in Canada during a trip there. He is bereft of all his belongings, the yarn goes on, and as such is presently without the wherewithal to even pay for his return.
In a-trademark fractured & funny language, it asks the readers to sympathize with some money:
“I just want to plead with you if you can loan me $2800 so I can re-arrange myself and I promise to make refunds to you once I get back.
Please help me have the money sent via Money Gram money transfer. Below is my information you would require in sending the money.”
Please note the solemn request for the money to be sent via MoneyGram only. This makes things easy for the fraudsters as the money can hence be withdrawn from any where in the world.
The situation has become a big worry for the monk; friends and acquaintances mistaking the requests to be real are in danger of responding to them.
He also bemoans the loss of a faithful email address. However, as he mentions in his blog, he is feeling amply compensated by the absence of spam in his new email id.
His blog is a wonderful one! It is in the running for being voted as the best religious blog online. I am sure you’d not hesitate to pitch in after having as little as a look-in there. Here is the link to log in your votes.
Source: Eastlothiannews.co.uk
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