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 > > > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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