When her email got hacked, dozens of people from all parts of her life reached out to eLizMarcus to check that she was alright. Here's how it changed how she sees the world.
Since the response to the scam made no sense logically, I knew it had to make another kind of sense: emotional sense.
The shared experience of living through the pandemic may have intensified our wish to be there for one another.I realized I’d been hacked when a cousin texted to say he’d received a message that didn’t sound like me: “Hello, I need a favor from you. I'd appreciate it if you could email me back asap. Am unavailable on the phone. Please let me know if you are online. Thank you. Elizabeth.”
Meanwhile, the phone rang non-stop with worried calls. Apparently, if you responded to the first message, you then received another saying I had Covid and couldn’t go out to buy the gift cards I wanted to send to my nephew and would the recipient please do it for me, to the tune of $1,000, for which I would later reimburse them. An obvious hack.
I was mystified by this outpouring. Most realized that the message was likely a hack but wanted to be reassured about me in case it wasn’t. Where was the room for doubt? It was highly improbable that I would be asking any of these people to lend me money .
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