Article: "How Yahoo allowed hackers to hijack my neighbor's e-mail account"

[Shmoov69]

My dads aol account got hacked a few weeks ago and they got his bank info (not online banking, but his "contacts" at the bank). They sent an email from his address to the contact at the bank about his line of credit limit, all in the same way that he writes and all. The next day a tractor was supposedly bought in Colorado somewhere for like 40k. Then the next day a charge came in from Australia for like 85k! Thankfully his account rep said that didn't look right and called!! Then as they were freezing the account and calling the other banks, another charge came in for like 130k, while they were looking at the screen!! Needles to say, it all got taken care of. But sadly someone lost their job because they did not follow procedure that was already set in place. What's crazy is the next day someone called the bank and said "this is Jim xxxxx and you better get that damn charge ran thru now!!" and hung up. Don't think they have found anything yet (and prolly won't unfortunately!), but pretty ballzy scam!

Thanks for the info!

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by Shmoov69

My dads aol account got hacked a few weeks ago and they got his bank info (not online banking, but his "contacts" at the bank). They sent an email from his address to the contact at the bank about his line of credit limit, all in the same way that he writes and all. The next day a tractor was supposedly bought in Colorado somewhere for like 40k. Then the next day a charge came in from Australia for like 85k! Thankfully his account rep said that didn't look right and called!! Then as they were freezing the account and calling the other banks, another charge came in for like 130k, while they were looking at the screen!! Needles to say, it all got taken care of. But sadly someone lost their job because they did not follow procedure that was already set in place. What's crazy is the next day someone called the bank and said "this is Jim xxxxx and you better get that damn charge ran thru now!!" and hung up. Don't think they have found anything yet (and prolly won't unfortunately!), but pretty ballzy scam!

Thanks for the info!

You're welcome.

Wow, that is some story about what happened to your Dad...