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11th February 2008, 05:50 PM
|  | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation:  | | | Latest e-mail scam: death threats
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E-mail scammers and spammers have long offered lavish rewards to those naive enough to post cash to spirit money out of a foreign country or to collect on a lottery ticket.
Now cyber-thieves are turning to a sharper edge: death threats and outright extortion.
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11th February 2008, 05:59 PM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 687 posts. Reputation: | | |
Morons, they're just going to scare the crap out of everyone.
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11th February 2008, 06:13 PM
|  | TST Master | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 3,366 posts. Reputation: | |
Anyone who receives crap like that, should delete it without even reading it.
Bottom line is: If you don`t recognise the sender, delete it or mark it as spam.
Is there no depths these arseholes won`t stoop to?
If I had my way, I`d track the buggers down and shoot `em.
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11th February 2008, 06:18 PM
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That would be the best way to go about it
Isn't there any way to track them down?
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11th February 2008, 06:24 PM
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Unfortunately there isn't much International support on email scams. The US, UK and Canada (probably a few others also) try their hardest with the resources they have but other countries just don't have the technology or money to do much about it. You would think that this may ignite some interest in doing something about it. But probably not.
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11th February 2008, 06:44 PM
| | TST Expert | | Join Date: Jan 2008, 894 posts. Reputation: | | |
How very scary. I never open email from people I don't know and sometimes don't open it from people I do know if it's forwarded junk.
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11th February 2008, 06:46 PM
| | TST Master | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 3,366 posts. Reputation: | |
Absolutely spot on chick.
If everyone did that, the scammers would be out of business, or at least severely limited.
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12th February 2008, 07:29 AM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Great Britain has one (yes ONE) policeman working on this - and he is doing it only as a sideline. Wonderful, our policemen.
Howard - if you can track my IP address, is there any reason why spammers can remain anonymous?
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12th February 2008, 11:20 AM
|  | Community Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 4,345 posts. Location: Oxford, UK Reputation: | | |
If you can get the advanced headers for the email then I can't see why you couldn't get them, there's tons of info there.
It's a bit different tracking an ISP of somebody who's going on web pages as opposed to sending emails, unless they can get the ISP's involved to get the IP's and addresses that the emails are coming from, then we stand a chance of stopping this rubbish.
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12th February 2008, 12:11 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
The target group of these people is not the ones who will know about looking at email headers. If you were doing a (snail) mail shot you might be happy with a 2% response - sending millions of emails looking for a 0.2% response is still "profitable" for these scheiskoepfer - otherwise they would not think it worth doing.
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12th February 2008, 12:43 PM
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Most of the ip`s will be anonymous proxy servers, so the ip wouldn`t be very helpful to the average joe such as me.
Governments really need to start doing more than they are to help combat this despicable crap.
Regards Howard |
12th February 2008, 01:01 PM
|  | Community Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2007, 238 posts. Location: Yuma, AZ USA Reputation: | | |
Whenever I read about someone who got scammed by these criminals, I have to wonder about the victims intelligence. While I would not say that they deserved to loose their money or identity, you have got to ask, "What were they thinking?".
At the last count, I have had over 500 relatives die intestate with their entire family onboard with them in the car, plane, or train. It seems that all of them left behind huge fortunes because they worked for oil companies.
Last edited by wektech; 12th February 2008 at 01:02 PM.
Reason: grammar
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12th February 2008, 02:46 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | Quote:
Originally Posted by howard_hopkinso  Most of the ip`s will be anonymous proxy servers, so the ip wouldn`t be very helpful to the average joe such as me.
Governments really need to start doing more than they are to help combat this despicable crap.
Regards Howard |
Stop it Howard - you are not an avarage joe on this sort of thing........
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