Hi everyone,
something really, really odd is happening. My father seems to be the victim of a very carefully targeted email scam, and I was wondering if anyone else might have heard about similar scams.
Someone has created email addresses that are almost identical to those of people like his doctor and my sister, and is using those email addresses to contact him or his friends/family to get information about him.
He got one from his "doctor" asking him to sign and fax back his new nutrition plan. It was on hospital letter head, but completely fake. The hospital is currently checking this out.
Then I got an email from my "sister" asking for information about Dad's siblings, like their date of birth.
We have no idea what's going on. My sister asked the London police about it, and they told her that because no crime had been committed in the case of her email, there is nothing they can do.
Is it possible that this is a really sophisticated, horribly cruel, "nigerian" email scam? Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Thanks for any comments,
Deborah