Kent, your deductions are wonderful, worthy of Holmes himself. Again, I apologize to everyone on the List for the inconvenience and worry. You guys are, and have always been, the very best! 

As you can imagine, I was on the phone with Yahoo for some time; the hacker was deactivated and reported. Yahoo seems to have had a serious issue all round today. 

Thanks, all,
Jocelyn

Jocelyn A. Chadwick



> On Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Kent_Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I was on my way to the bank to mortgage my car so I could send Jocelyn th=
> e
> money she needed, when it occurred to me several things about her message=
> 
> are fishy. For example, it contains this curious line: "we had to be in K=
> YIV
> (UKRAINE), Philippines for a program." Why would Jocelyn write "Kyiv" for=
> 
> "Kiev," and what do the Philippines have to do with the Ukraine?
> 
> Another fishy thing: If she lost her cell phone, how did she manage to se=
> nd
> an email message to everyone? One final clue: Would anyone sending such a=
> 
> desperate message bother to sign her name with her middle initial?
> 
> My apologies to Jocelyn for not dismissing the ludicrous note instantly.