Hypothetical scenario - please give hypothetical advice (1 Viewer)

[xulf]

I wish I could take these hypothetical pictures myself

 

[mr roboto]

Can you trace an email account to a person? Or would you need to set up a meeting to catch him?

Not kidding here. Can you?

 

[Schlzm]

Someone (let's call him Jim) comes to you and says he got a disturbing email. The email said something to the effect of "Hey, Jim, you don't know me, but I pulled all the private photos and video off of your iphone remotely while learning how to hack apple systems, and I think I may send them to your girlfriend."

Jim asks you for advice. He tells you that the photos/video in question are "sensitive" and "embarrassing" but not illegal. What's your suggestion?

1. I think it's a scam and no one has any pictures.

2. Post the full message source from the email and let some of the experts see where it came from and whether it looks legit or not. I'm betting "not".

I would be more than willing to counter track the headers on his emails for free.Schlzm

 

[Schlzm]

Can you trace an email account to a person? Or would you need to set up a meeting to catch him?

Not kidding here. Can you?

That depends on how good you are Schlzm

 

[Henry Ford]

Someone (let's call him Jim) comes to you and says he got a disturbing email. The email said something to the effect of "Hey, Jim, you don't know me, but I pulled all the private photos and video off of your iphone remotely while learning how to hack apple systems, and I think I may send them to your girlfriend."

Jim asks you for advice. He tells you that the photos/video in question are "sensitive" and "embarrassing" but not illegal. What's your suggestion?

1. I think it's a scam and no one has any pictures.

2. Post the full message source from the email and let some of the experts see where it came from and whether it looks legit or not. I'm betting "not".

I was told the person described the content of said pictures.

I don't have the email. Just offering advice.

 

[Schlzm]

Someone (let's call him Jim) comes to you and says he got a disturbing email. The email said something to the effect of "Hey, Jim, you don't know me, but I pulled all the private photos and video off of your iphone remotely while learning how to hack apple systems, and I think I may send them to your girlfriend."

Jim asks you for advice. He tells you that the photos/video in question are "sensitive" and "embarrassing" but not illegal. What's your suggestion?

1. I think it's a scam and no one has any pictures.

2. Post the full message source from the email and let some of the experts see where it came from and whether it looks legit or not. I'm betting "not".

I was told the person described the content of said pictures.I don't have the email. Just offering advice.

My offer of free tracking still stands.I do not require any actual content, just text based data.

Schlzm

 

[fatness]

Someone (let's call him Jim) comes to you and says he got a disturbing email. The email said something to the effect of "Hey, Jim, you don't know me, but I pulled all the private photos and video off of your iphone remotely while learning how to hack apple systems, and I think I may send them to your girlfriend."

Jim asks you for advice. He tells you that the photos/video in question are "sensitive" and "embarrassing" but not illegal. What's your suggestion?

1. I think it's a scam and no one has any pictures.

2. Post the full message source from the email and let some of the experts see where it came from and whether it looks legit or not. I'm betting "not".

I was told the person described the content of said pictures.

I don't have the email. Just offering advice.

Yes, I read you say something to that effect earlier. But scam emails like that are commonplace, and when someone believes one they can get afraid. We all know how fear destroys judgment and recollection. "Described the contents" said by someone who was afraid sounds like someone exiting a fortunteller's lair saying "described my dead father exactly".

Post the full message source.

 

[Henry Ford]

Someone (let's call him Jim) comes to you and says he got a disturbing email. The email said something to the effect of "Hey, Jim, you don't know me, but I pulled all the private photos and video off of your iphone remotely while learning how to hack apple systems, and I think I may send them to your girlfriend."

Jim asks you for advice. He tells you that the photos/video in question are "sensitive" and "embarrassing" but not illegal. What's your suggestion?

1. I think it's a scam and no one has any pictures.

2. Post the full message source from the email and let some of the experts see where it came from and whether it looks legit or not. I'm betting "not".

I was told the person described the content of said pictures.I don't have the email. Just offering advice.

Yes, I read you say something to that effect earlier. But scam emails like that are commonplace, and when someone believes one they can get afraid. We all know how fear destroys judgment and recollection. "Described the contents" said by someone who was afraid sounds like someone exiting a fortunteller's lair saying "described my dead father exactly".

Post the full message source.

I can't. I don't have it. Nor has it been offered to me.Continuing to ask me to post it doesn't make it magically appear in my possession.

 

[fatness]

If your interest is providing advice, the first part of the advice should be determining whether it's an obvious scam or not. If it's an obvious scam the guy could smack himself on the head for falling for it, say "Thanks Henry" and be done with it and you would have given good advice, even though that advice took you out of your area of expertise.

The offer to analyze the message (sans content) if provided privately to another poster here offering his services, free, is right above. I'm sure there's a way you can mention that possibility to the guy asking advice, and set up a direct contact that doesn't involve posting anything here or you viewing anything.