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    Redhot Jumper My e-mail address got hacked..................

    Any OptiBoard member that is on My e-mail addsress list and that got any e-mail, that I got robbed in the UK......................please ignore it.
    My e-mail address got hacked this afternoon ad I just get flooded with phone calls from all over telling me about it.
    I will do my best to stop the dirty affair as soon as I can.

    Thanks for understanding
    Chris

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    so you want the 10 mil or not?

    I'm thinking of putting a hold on it but Fezz says I should send 5 just to be safe.

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    relax chris, this is nothing, i just got an email from the nigerians, they say you have a big fat bank account and they like that, i think they have 50 million that needs to be deposited in canada, someones aunt died

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    General Information:

    To all that received these e-mails.

    My e-mail account has been hijacked yesterday and several fake messages have been sent out to collect money to help me out of some trouble in the UK.

    Our e-mail account had been hijacked on Sunday and fake messages have been sent to the listed addressee's Please ignore these messages, the e-mail account is locked for 24 hours by Yahoo and the will need new passwords. All mail to it will be automatically returned until then.

    We apologize for the inconvenience. Updated information will be available at the top of our website, at the top of the English main page.


    Chris Ryser

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    So are we supposed to send you the money?

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    Does this mean we are not getting paid back?

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    Hi Chris,

    I was about to call you and check if this was legit, but thought I would check here first. Glad to hear that you are fine.

    Regards,

    Wayne

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    Blue Jumper We got hijacked.......and what a scam


    We got hijacked.......and what a scam

    Our E-Mail Account with Yahoo has been hijacked and mis-used to scam money out of people.

    Please do not respond to those e-mails received pretending they are from me, Chris Ryser in need of money stranded in the UK. but actually being in Florida in the cold weather.

    Check out all the deatails at:
    Hijacked Yahoo E-Mail Account

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    I got scammed by this same individual a few months back but he sent me a bottle of edge polish in return for my money. Just kidding, hope you get everything back in order.

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    Ha...

    Quote Originally Posted by YrahG View Post
    I got scammed by this same individual a few months back but he sent me a bottle of edge polish in return for my money. Just kidding, hope you get everything back in order.
    Funny! But not really, hope you get to dip the guilty party in a vat of a chemical of your choice! A/R stripper perhaps?
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    Blue Jumper A/R stripper perhaps....................

    Quote Originally Posted by FVCCHRIS View Post
    Funny! But not really, hope you get to dip the guilty party in a vat of a chemical of your choice! A/R stripper perhaps?
    AR stripper should do, if the cops will find him which could be possible as those computers all have a IPS ? numbers and they can trace them.

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    Really! Chris Ryser in need of money! HA! How dumb can we be? :drop:

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    Quote Originally Posted by hridgeway View Post
    Really! Chris Ryser in need of money! HA! How dumb can we be? :drop:
    I heard he invented money but never patented it. :D

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    Heck, I just got it today!
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    Quote Originally Posted by YrahG View Post
    I heard he invented money but never patented it. :D

    Hey you, I thought that was Al Gore?



    ;):cheers::cheers::D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fezz View Post
    Hey you, I thought that was Al Gore?



    ;):cheers::cheers::D
    So then Chris invented the internet right? Or was it e-mail?

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    Quote Originally Posted by YrahG View Post
    So then Chris invented the internet right? Or was it e-mail?

    It sure wasn't internet or e-mail security!


    :cheers::cheers::shiner::cheers::cheers:;)

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    Where's that "kick a man when he's down" smiley when you need it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by braheem24 View Post
    Where's that "kick a man when he's down" smiley when you need it?

    Aw, come on!

    Chris knows we wouldn't kick him if we didn't love him!

    :cheers::cheers::cheers:

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    Quote Originally Posted by braheem24 View Post
    Where's that "kick a man when he's down" smiley when you need it?

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    Hey I'm stuck in Arizona and need help..can I can some of that 50mil sent to help me out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by varmint View Post
    Hey I'm stuck in Arizona and need help..can I can some of that 50mil sent to help me out?
    only if you send me 51 million first.
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    Redhot Jumper Back to normal....................

    Thank you all for the comments. I hope this case is now going into the past and is history.
    At 6am I could finally get back into my e-mail account at Yahoo, after it had been locked for 24 hours for being suspect to fraud.

    I had to come up with a load of answers and then change pass word and check the contacts (responsible for the e-mail account) and saw a e-mail address listed on G-mail which I never seen before.

    I assume that was the one that sent all the messages in my name. I sent him/her a very, very, very nice e-mail telling him/her that a complaint had been lodged with the US government and now we even had an address to find him/her by the IP address.

    I made a short report on my website to make easier for the ones that did enquire about the problem and I am posting a direct link to that page sothat anybody on OptiBoard who wants to know can also look at it.
    Thanks for the support.

    Chris



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    Chris, don,t you feel bad that they only think yo:cheers:ur worth 800 lbs

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    Redhot Jumper Think logically,

    Harry think logical, by having had a free hand with my e-mail account with over 1000 adresses asking a reasonable amount would seem less fictional than larger ones and many might sent something.

    The big chief of my bank I work with, said he thought it was a scam, but if true he would have sent a lot more.

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