If you receive a strange message from a friend, and asking you to contact him only via internet, it is no doubt that the e-mail of your friend has been hacked. Do not reply to these kind of message as a next one will come asking you for money. In this case you rather contact your friend by phone, so that he can change his mail or password and inform all his friends. “All members are reminded to treat e-mail request messages with great caution. Usually they are scams, even when supposedly signed by prominent individuals within the SMA”.