<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Civil society, particularly non technical civil society, is particularly vulnerable to compromise. Especially if they work in "sensitive" areas - eg: religions or political movements that their country takes exception to.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 13-Feb-2013, at 18:24, "Robert Guerra" <<a href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org">rguerra@privaterra.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>Out of curiosity, how many people in this list have has had their email and/or social media accounts compromised ?</p><div><br></div><div>Interested to get an ad-hoc sense of how affected (or not) this community is affected by account security issues</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Robert </div><div class="mailbox_signature">—<br>Sent from <a href="https://bit.ly/SZvoJe">Mailbox</a> for iPhone</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>Rebecca MacKinnon [13/02/13 07:19 -0500]:
>Obviously his account has been hacked.
Yes. This is a typical nigerian scam - and one that's reasonably recent.
Not more than 4..5 years old at any rate.
Quite targeted in that the spammer reads through old email to invent a
plausible excuse.
A friend's uncle is a doctor who goes to Africa a lot and had this happen
to him, and the email went out with enough plausible looking details - a
conference in nigeria that he HAD attended earlier, for example - according
to the scam, he was in nigeria at that moment, had been mugged and needed
his friends to wire some money over.
And here, its signed like Rony signs his email ..
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