I received an email today from someone who calls herself Kathy Lagoli. Her email address is kathylagoli@thingdiamond.com. The wording of the email is as follows:
Hello,
Would you be available to discuss this on the phone ?
kathy,
Would you be available to discuss this on the phone ?
kathy,
Innocently, I replied, as is the natural thing to do, even though I was somewhat surprised by the email. My reply:
Hello Kathy,
Of course. Can you give me a hint of what in particular the discussion will concern?
Regards
Anengiyefa
Then out of curiosity, I thought to google 'Kathy Lagoli' and the first item in my search was this post which I have set out in full below:
DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAIL FROM KATHY LAGOLI
Just wanted to let everyone know that today I received an email from someone named "Kathy Lagoli". The subject line contained an"re:" about one of my recent posts. The body of the email contained this message: "Would you be available to discuss this on the phone?" This comes after someone who has me on their contacts had their email account hacked into.
I didn't know what to think, so I didn't reply, then decided on a whim to google the name and came upon several sights that said they had received the exact same email, so it appears to be a scam of some sort....so DO NOT REPLY to any such emails.
Update: Just checking my traffic feed, there are TONS of people googling this name, so it would seem pretty widespread.
Update: Just checking my traffic feed, there are TONS of people googling this name, so it would seem pretty widespread.
Thank heavens I did not divulge my telephone number, even though I am somewhat worried as to the possibility of some cyber criminal hacking into my email account through my reply.
