# So I got an email titled "I really need your help"...
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 26, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035 "2010-04-26T18:34:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@TORQDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TORQDSS)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/1 "2010-04-26T18:34:44Z")
This email is from an NYSPEEDer that I know and have spoken too several times through email and not just PM’s so I wasn’t surprised to see the email from him although I thought it was about a car. I have been getting quite a few SPAM/virus/junk emails lately so I don’t know if someone hacked my email or there is something else wrong. I use hotmail… any idea why this would be happening suddenly?
email text:
"Hi, I really don’t mean to inconvenience you right now but I made a
quick trip to the UK and I lost a bag which contains my passport and
credit cards. I know this may sound odd, but it all happened very
fast. I’ve been to the embassy and they’re willing to help me fly
without my passport but I just have to pay for my ticket and settle
some bills. Right now I’m out of cash plus i can’t access my bank
without my credit card over here. I have contacted them but they need
more verification. I’m just gonna have to plead with you to lend me
some funds right now? I’ll pay back as soon as I get home. I need to
get on the next available flight home.
Please reply as soon as you get this message so I can forward the
details as to where to send the funds. You can reach me via the
hotel’s desk phone if you can, the numbers are, 011447024076760 or
011447024093678.
I await your response…
Thanks
XXXXXXX"
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/2 "2010-04-26T18:58:24Z")
No…if you think someone hacked your account you should change your password YESTERDAY! and not something simple.
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### Author:  [@Z28pr0jekt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Z28pr0jekt)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/3 "2010-04-26T19:33:31Z")
This happened to a professor at my school with an email from another professor just a couple weeks ago, it is the person who sent the email who got hacked
It’s the new scam moving away from nigerian garbage.
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### Author:  [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/4 "2010-04-26T19:39:04Z")
“I await your response” is pretty much a dead giveaway.
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### Author:  [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/5 "2010-04-26T20:00:34Z")
yo mr basil, im stuck in ethiopia… i need your help, bail your broseph out… get at me dawg…
side note… im pretty sure if this were a true problem, id be calling family and close friends before sending out mass emails…
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### Author:  [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/6 "2010-04-26T20:33:14Z")
lol yea, stuff like that gets sent out from a virus/hacked deal.
Although, I’d be interested to call the number and ask for said person to see what happens :o
or turn it in to the po po
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### Author:  [@joelster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/joelster)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/7 "2010-04-27T04:02:46Z")
I googled the first phone number and this is the first hit:
[http://pez.multiply.com/journal/item/280](http://pez.multiply.com/journal/item/280)
“a new email scam”
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/8 "2010-04-27T05:21:49Z")
Yeah, it’s not your email that got hacked, but someone else’s!
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### Author:  [@cfrat1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cfrat1)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2010, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/9 "2010-04-27T11:03:27Z")
Soo did you contact them or not? They await your response!
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### Author:  [@glitch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/glitch)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/10 "2010-04-27T11:25:42Z")
“I’m in the UK but can you wire the money to my brother in Nigeria?”
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### Author:  [@TORQDSS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TORQDSS)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-an-email-titled-i-really-need-your-help/154035/11 "2010-04-28T10:23:32Z")
Thanks for the help guys, I don’t know squat about computers…