If you would like to look, this month's Wired magazine (August 2002) has a short piece on this scam. Page 30. Someone attempted to scam to scammer and to a certain extent, it was successful. They also have a webpage with the final message to the scam artist. But it's on a transfer limit site which has been in the exceeded state since the article came out. http://willcoxinfo.bravepages.com/bankwire.htm Regards, Greg At 07:25 AM 7/10/02 -0700, Robert Myles wrote: >Tim, > >Your statement is right on track. These are targeted scams that >individuals use to try to get financial information from unwitting >victims. When the individual sends that information to the Scam Artist, >they use the financial data to wipe out your accounts. To report these, >send the entire e-mail to the U.S. Secret service at ><mailto:419.fcd@private>419.fcd@private They track and >prosecute where they can. > >Robert Myles, CISSP >Information Security Officer >Oregon Health & Science University >Mail Code AD140 >2525 SW 1st Avenue >Portland, OR 97201 >Tel: 503-494-8500 >Fax: 503-494-8850 >Cell: 503-329-9972 ><mailto:mylesr@private>mylesr@private > > >>> Tim Kramer <kramert@private> 7/10/2002 4:54:51 AM >>> >This is a variant of what's known as "advanced fee fraud", otherwise >known as Nigerian 419 fraud. The objective here is (more or less) >identity theft (cleaning out your bank account, etc.). Rumor has it >that kidnapping has been involved. > >For more information about this, Google for "advance fee fraud". You'll >get quite a large list of sites describing this. I recommend that you >stick to the ".gov" sites and avoid the "baiting N-419" sites (a >dangerous form of entertainment). Unless you actually lost money in the >scam (various gov't agencies are interested if you did), the best thing >you can do is educate your coworkers. > >Tim Kramer >MLRNOC NSO > > >On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 14:24, Rob Martin wrote: > > A co-worker of mine received this today, and I'm not sure who to inform. > > Sorry to clog your email box with one more message. > > > > rob > > [original message snipped] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02
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