the picture below is of my computer… well, where my computer should be…

my nephew has just had a look at it and has taken it away to be de-bugged…

usually it isn’t that big a deal but whoever got into it tried to talk my financial person, via email, into wiring money to Istanbul… he realized it didn’t sound like my emails and called me at work…

since then I’ve talked to the police, who apparently wouldn’t do anything unless they had got my money, the bank to be sure no one had found their way into my accounts, my email service provider to figure out what I needed to do with that account… and I’ve tried to contact the anti-fraud people but haven’t connected with them yet…

all the while feeling violated and sick to my stomach…

started when I tried to open a file sent by a friend, with what I thought were baby pictures… said they were sending something in Google doc… if you get something along those lines – don’t open it!

what was particularly worrisome was that my finance guy was emailing me back and I never got those emails… the tech guy told me that they take them right off the server before they get downloaded to a person’s phone…

big girl pants again, sigh…