On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, jeff keith wrote: > Justin Kremer - CEO wrote: > > > > If you receive an e-mail like this, the FIRST thing to do is contact the > > bank given in the e-mail. > <snip> > > I did just that, contacting ABN AMRO Bank, and after getting > transferred around for a while, the person I finally spoke to indicated > that the account numbers mentioned in the email were invalid. Sadly, this being Russia (and field experience tells me that it's very similar in Bulgaria and other ex-Soviet Block countries), pretty much anything can be bought or sold if you know the right people, and can meet the right price. I guess I am paranoid, but considering internet access in Russia is still very costly for a home user, a potential situation is that the cracker that sends out threat letters is a bank employee, that uses bank's internet connection to earn a bit of cash on the side. Then it gets interesting, and sadly it's not too far fetched. Oh, and yes, I speak from general experience of being born in USSR. > jak Signed: //Stany -- +-------+ Stanislav N Vardomskiy - Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis[TM] +-------+ | "Backups we have; it's restores that we find tricky." Richard Letts at ASR | | This message is powered by JOLT! For all the sugar and twice the caffeine. | +--------+ My words are my own. LARTs are provided free of charge. +---------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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