A woman has been left in disbelief after receiving a snotty email from the hacker who stole her credit card information. She explained how a "criminal" hacked into her email account to access her credit card - and proceeded to use her money to book a flight.
The crook booked his flight through a travel agency company but made the mistake of signing up to the service using her email address. Taking to Reddit, she said: "My credit card was hacked. I think the guy did it by hacking my Gmail account because he signed up to a [travel agency company], with the login with Gmail button.
"I called my bank and cancelled it. I logged into [the website] to see if I could get any information about the person who booked the flight. I saw I could cancel it for no charge so I did because it was going to be faster to get a refund from them than my bank."
But two days later, the woman received an "entitled" email from the hacker, called Travis, who booked the flight.
It read: "Why was my flight cancelled? Could you please respond? I have a family event to attend. Thank you for your time, Travis."
Making yet another mistake, Travis made his photo and phone number visible to her when signing off his email.
She added: "I did a little bit of investigating it looks like he has a criminal record and works in technology. So, I sort of think he knew what he was doing but I could be wrong.
"Oh and my card was used to buy like 12 tickets to a dinosaur museum, and I blocked it before they tried to order Grub Hub and some s*** from a Medieval site.
"I called the police fraud department and they told me to go to a police station.
"The police station said there are a lot of people with that name and it 'could' be a fake number - and told me to call the fraud department."
Commenting on her post, one user said: "There's zero chance of me ignoring that email. I am 100 per cent responding."
Another user joked: "Why would you do that to him? He has a family event to attend. Have you no heart?"
A third user said: "This guy is one of the stupidest criminals I've ever seen!"
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