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drzaiusx11today at 12:17 PM0 repliesview on HN

Recently one of my friends got email hijacked and whatever entity it was seemingly used her past sent emails as a training corpus to construct some very convincing pleas for donations involving a dog rescue she's been operating for several years.

It also included personal details only her closest friends and family would know. I assume this is being done at scale now. These are NOT Nigerian prince scams of yesteryear; this is something entirely different.