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.