Breaking News: UDP'S External Wing Official Email Hacked!!! Hackers Demand Over $2000 to bail out stranded UDP official! Emergency!!

Hacking is becoming a common problem in Africa and the United States. The latest victims of hacking is the United Democratic Party External Wing in New York. The official email of the UDP external wing has been hacked.  In a  terse statement captioned" Emergency" the hackers created false alarm by blackmailing the UDP leadership. The hackers emailed the Freedom Newspaper and the Allgambian.net claiming that one of the UDP officials was stranded in a Lago's hotel and demanded over $2000 dollars to bail out the stranded official. The hackers did not stop at that, they also provided the name of the hotel and its manager. They also asked concerned Gambians interested in helping the stranded UDP official to contact the hotel manager for funds to be wired to him. UDP Coordinator Saihou Mballow was left dump founded by the hacking. Mballow said he could not access UDP'S official email since Wednesday. He says the hackers took immediate control of the email. Mballow in a brief interivew with the Freedom Newspaper called on Gambians and friends of The Gambia to ignore the hackers request for funds to be wired in Nigeria. " None of our officials are stranded in Nigeria. This is a lie.They hacked our official email address. This is a serious case and we have contacted Yahoo to investigate and restore the account back." said Mballow. Mr. Mballow said he does not have any evidence linking the Gambian Government to the cyber crime. " We do not want to speculate. Let give chance to the investigations.The hackers are claiming to be operating from Nigeria. We do not have any evidence yet linking The Gambian Government to this hacking." Mballow said.  It would be recalled that the Freedom Newspaper was hacked in 2006 by agents of The Gambian Government. Mballow says the said email contained correspondences between the UDP External Wing and the party's parent body in The Gambia.  No one knows where these documents would land. The Gambian Government might be eager to lay its hands on the said documents. Below is the full statement issued by the hackers. Please read on...

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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:21 AM, United Democratic Party NYC wrote:

Hi,

 How are you today? Hope all is well with you? I am in hurry writing you this short message, i traveled to Nigeria and i got my self stranded.I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $1050 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home,need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1600 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $2650 to sort out my problems here.I am sending you this e-mail from the Hotel i am staying and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home, so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.

 

Please you have to contact the Hotel manager on the hotel Email Address to explain how you can help me. Eko.suite_hotel@live.com, Phone number(+2347031373602) or (+234014163890) but it takes hard time to connect Hotel Manager's Name Mr Farook Salma.

 

Thanks.