URGENT ALERT!!! IT IS A SCAM!!!

By On November 3, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Events, Announcements, Tours, Seminars, Featured

Hello everyone

My email account was hacked today, and almost everyone on my list received an urgent request to send me money in Scotland, where I supposedly am stranded!  IT IS A SCAM!

 

A good number of people have been taken in and are asking where to send money.  PLEASE will everyone who reads this broadcast through all your social media that I am (almost) alive and (almost) well at HQ in Oceanside?

thanks you.  posting of our contest entries will resume tomorrow.

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thorn

 
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  • http://wmadvantage.tumblr.com Chuck

    I hope no one loses their money. Hate hackers.

  • Diane Cresswell

    When I saw that, my first response was why didn’t he call Derek?   Then I read it again and realized that a hacker had found their way into our community.  Then I started thinking of what kind of return email I could send – something like I just received lots of money from a trust fund and if you need more where can I send it.  But there would be a price – I would have to take your son in as a hostage and to let me know quick for coffee drinking aliens were staring at me through the window…kinda wondered what the response back would be…glad you’re almost alive – kind of like what was said by Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride – at least you’re not mostly dead…

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    Derek offered 3 pounds, but they wouldn’t take a check.  Gary offered horse cents

  • Mike Casper

    Well I never got your email. I’m devastated. But you know internet scams? They could be true! The government guy in Nigeria is sooo nice! He’s going to send me $15,000,000 dollars when I send him another $1,250! I’m on my way to the FedEx office now…you want in on this? I can drop by the clubhouse for your share…

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    My Nigerian offers more than YOUR Nigerian!  You’d be amazed how many people thought this was true.  I received about 4 letters like this over the last six months.  I think I will fly out to Scotland and get stranded.

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  • Mac Eagan

    I read this page and your post, then checked my email account.  Yup, I got one.  I thought about following your suggestion and sending some kind of reply, but then wondered what they would do with MY email account.
    So I just deleted it.

  • Mac Eagan

    Sorry that happened to you, Thorn.  We appreciate you sending a heads-up through here to help save the rest of us.

  • Barry Drucker

    Boy, I gave you 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, and you’ve evidently squandered them already!

  • Tlrelf

    Now THIS is the stuff of which true horror is made. I haven’t read through my gmail in the last few days, but I’ve been informed about these emails. I saw a special news program on them, too, recently. Those scammers from Africa are traveling to Scotland!

  • Tlrelf

    If you flew out to Scotland and got stranded, we may just think any missives from you are from scammers in Oceanside!

    hehe

    Seriously, though, I gathered together all of my books and sold them on EBAY, then took the proceeds and sent them to you in Scotland. You haven’t received the funds yet? Nessie must have intercepted them and is now feasting on roast seal or whatever it is she likes to eat. Perhaps we should rub seal scent on those scammers and dangle them over Nessie’s head!

  • Anonymous

    Thorn, I didn’t get an e-mail but my daughter called me tonight and said, “I got the strangest e-mail today. Is Thorn in Scotland?” Baby daughter, Jodi. You posted her story in the Coffee House Chronicles. Sorry this happened, but are you sure this isn’t leading up to the next contest? Why don’t I trust everything I read on your blogs and emails? …and you such a great guy! pd

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    I have never been to Scotland. I have received similar letters over the last six months, and they did sound convincing.  A friend calls for help. mugged in Hyde Park, can’t settle the hotel bill, embassy no help, etc.  I just hope no one sent any money.

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