Subscribe RSSAkeem Lasisi examines how fraudsters hack into people’s email addresses to dupe contacts in their address books and how a veteran journalist is their latest victim.
For anyone truly recuperating from an illness, it is a sin to do to him anything that can bring back his fever. But fraudsters do not care a hoot. This is the case of one that attempted to pull a fast one on Lagos-based media executive, Chief Ajibade Fashina-Thomas, as well as his friends and associates.
In a manner the 419 scammers have duped many people; especially foreigners, the goon had hacked the veteran journalist’s email address, and used his name to send an SOS message to all the folks on his mailing list. Predictably, most of the people on the list are co-veteran journalists. Among such are a former press secretary to the former maximum military leader, Ibrahim Babangida‘s administration, Chief Duro Onabule, and Chief Eddy Aderinokun.
Only about a week ago, the Chairman of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, had a similar experience.
