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About a month ago, I read a post on DU from someone whose purported name is the same as my 90 yr old Mother's name. I thought it was just a coincidence and let it go, but it never left me because my Mother's name is not your everyday garden variety name. Now I am receiving messages on my Yahoo Account, one from a member of Congress asking my Mother's Name, for campaign donations. My 90 year old mother has never been on a computer, or Yahoo, or an IPhone, in her life. She also has Dementia and I'm concerned whether someone has stolen her identity. I don't know for certain if this is a scam but I was curious whether anyone else has received similar emails. If you have aging parents, I'd make sure that they are not being hit up for campaign contributions from real or imagined members of Congress, over the internet.
For the record, I have nothing against contributions to members of Congress. I've donated plenty to the Biden Campaign myself and would urge fellow Dems to do so as well. We've got to get Trump out of the White House.
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alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)blm
(113,057 posts)Good to know
LeftInTX
(25,315 posts)The email address could be associated to her via you..
All those services like My Life, Been Verfied etc will often erroneously associate family members with phone numbers and email addresses.
catbyte
(34,383 posts)That is weird.
doc03
(35,332 posts)They said (ME and no subject) I never sent those e-mails and wouldn't dare open them to see what they were?
That's a new one for me. Did someone use my account to send out e-mails?
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Email addresses are wrong.
My best friend recently has received 3 phony emails from me. She called me before opening.
I was hacked 3 years ago and my account was emptied (got all money back).
I dont think you would be out of line asking admin to verify the DU person who has your mothers name. Heck, if its me, you have my permission to have admin verify me.
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)When I started getting spam email from my yahoo address with my username. I will never go back to that hack infested swamp.