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Sebenarnya sejak awal saya sudah agak curiga dengan email tersebut, tak biasa-biasanya pihak admin dari mail.com meminta konfirmasi semacam itu. Tetapi karena waktu itu saya agak ceroboh dan kurang teliti, akhirnya email tersebut saya balas dan data yang diminta saya isi dengan sebenarnya.
Sepintas memang saya sempat membaca bahwa sendernya adalah resmi dari service@mail.com , yang biasa mengirim berbagai update ke inbox email saya. Setelah saya teliti ulang dengan membuka kembali reply saya ternyata bukan dari alamat tersebut.
Duer ! Sore harinya saya kemudian menerima banyak sms dan email dari teman-teman. Mereka menanyakan kebenaran email saya dan keadaan saya yang sebenarnya.
Rupanya, mereka membuat kloning (lagi musim kloning nih yee..!) terhadap email saya. Email asli saya adalah aljohan@mail.com, sementara kloningannya a[I]johan@mail.com (huruf L-nya diganti i dengan huruf besar) dan kemudian mereka mengirim email kepada semua orang yang emailnya ada di kontak saya, salah satunya kepada seorang sahabat yang juga Kompasianer Mbak Christie Damayanti. Mau tahu isi emailnya ? Boleh dibaca tulisan dibawah ini :
From: "Al Johan" <aIjohan@mail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:04:23 -0700
Subject: Hello
Hello,
How are you doing ? Sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to England for a program,i hate to do this but am some difficulties here because i misplaced my Wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things like my credit were kept in . I already contacted my credit card company to Stop my cards immediately,But where my problem lies is that it will take another 5 days to get me a replacement. I will like you to assist me with a loan of 2,000 Pounds to sort-out my hotel bills and get myself back home. I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with and I promise to reimburse you at my return,Kindly let me know if you can be of help? so that i can let you know the wire transfer instructions.
