Beware of the Kay Cobb Email Scam
I received a report on a new email scam directed at Mississippi lawyers using the name of former Supreme Court Justice Kay Cobb. Here is the text of the email:
From: kay cobb [mailto:kbcobb@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:00 PM
To: kbcobb@yahoo.com
Subject: VERY URGENT & IMPORTANT
I Pray this get to you on time, I am sorry I didn't inform you about my holiday trip to United Kingdom, I'm presently in scotland and am having some difficulties here.I had a car accident on my way back to the Hotel where I lodged and I lost my handbag where I kept my cash,credit cards and cell phone including my passport in the incident . I will like you to assist me with a loan of $3500 to sort-out my hotel bills and to get myself back home. I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with and I promise to Refund the money as soon as I return.let me know if you can be of any assistance.I will send you the Information where you will wire the funds via western union money transfer.
I hope to hear from you
Regards
Kay B. Cobb
What kind of moron would think that anyone from Mississippi would use the word "lodged"?
Hopefully Bradley Arant will see this alert before they wire a bunch of money overseas.
I have it on good authority that someone has hacked Justice Cobb's Yahoo account, and that attempts are being made to rectify the situation. Email sent to the Yahoo address (which is her real one) is being answered by the scammer.
That Bradley Arant comment at the end made me laugh out loud.
I still get at least 10 scams in my spam box everyday from lots of different countries. You would think people wouldn't fall for these anymore. I actually had an idiot client, a doctor, who fell for one of these. They told him his long lost great-grandfather had died in South Africa and had a lot of money no one had claimed. He went to Amsterdam to try and claim it. Of course, it didn't work out.