Emailed "hacker warning" picking up steam in recent weeks urges recipients not to accept messages or friend requests from an alleged identity thief named Simon Ashton. Alerts like these are a dime a dozen and, as likely as not, have more to do with besmirching reputations than preventing actual hacker attacks.
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Yes, just got the Simon Ashton E-mail hoax from a guy in New Zealand.
First thing I did was search “Simon Ashton”.
WILL IT HAPPEN I AM SCARED I AM ONLY 12 YEARS OLD AND I AM SCARED OF THIS GUY
I am surprised that people still fall for these types of hoaxes as they are so easy to uncover by searching the web.
I just got this from friends im sooooo scared i deleted my email account