Re: Threat mail from russia (followup)

From: Vitaly Osipov (vosipovat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 08:17:46 PDT

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    the bank account given there is just a gateway account allowing you to
    transfer money to any user of "webmoney" system (www.webmoney.ru,
    www.webmoney.com) - more or less anonymous way to transfer money over
    the Internet.
    
    regards,
    Vitaly
    
    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.  Let them know that their client is involved in
    > mail fraud.  Secondly, I would use the mail header and contact the sender's
    > ISP.
    > Should take a whole 10 minutes out of your busy day and hopefully will teach
    > this guy a lesson.
    > 
    > -Justin Kremer
    > CEO - Investigate Int'l
    > 
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Bjorn Djupvik" <Bjorn.Djupvikat_private>
    > To: <incidentsat_private>
    > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:03 AM
    > Subject: Re: Threat mail from russia (followup)
    > 
    > > After doing some research I have come to the conclusion that this is
    > probably all a scam and not targeted at my client
    > > directly. The reasons why I believe this is that when doing a search on
    > various search engines for the account# mentioned
    > > in the mail, I get hits on various other schemes which probably also are
    > scams (like this one:
    > > http://love.lorton.com/html/payment.html) . We will however be watching
    > that network extra closely from now on though :)
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > /bjorn
    > >
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