A client of ours received this mail today, did anyone else see this? Its probably just a scam/spam but we'd like to be
sure.
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Subject:
Attention! Read this letter attentively and show its your boss!!!
Date:
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:53:57 +0600
From:
odysseyat_private
To:
support@obfuscated
Hi!!! I am poor Russian hacker which very much adores to research all that is connected with INTERNET (with network
safety, finding various bugs.) Recently has decided to research
your site and everything, that with it can be connected .Sorry ,should mark, that your protection system not so is
perfect, as probably you think (in it I has detected 3 serious bugs.) And now
present, that this information becomes accessible to anothers hackerz or to your competitors... Your reputation can thus
.... But. I am ready to help to remove to you these bugs, but under
condition of: Number first: your company will send on following bank score 5000 $ (for your company it is the trifling
sum) Number second: As soon as money will be translated I immediately
I shall send you my guidelines on elimination of these bugs.... Remember, what only at observance of my conditions my help
(for me in it already is not absolutely nice experience) So, your
company road your reputation is possible(probable)? Superfluous problems are necessary for you? So, you select...? P.S. I
want to assure you of the following: I am not cyber-thief I am not
cracker or vandal. Is simple to find bugs in a protection system is my weakness, except for that it that I know how to
do(make) rather well. So I earn to myself on life... Banking account :
Intermediary Bank Code: ABNAUS33 Intermediary Bank: ABN AMRO Bank, New York Beneficiary Bank Acc: 574074590141 Beneficiary
Bank Code: IINDRUMM Beneficiary Bank:
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