I received a disturbing (to me) piece of SPAM this morning: As happens occasionally, this one sailed through our SPAM filter, but it got my attention for a number of reasons
I'd like to say I'm disappointed in our fellow online denizens, but really the worse these get, the more I almost seem to expect them. Please comment, let us know what you're seeing out there spam-wise ! =============== Rob VandenBrink Metafore =============== |
Rob VandenBrink 577 Posts ISC Handler Jun 2nd 2010 |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
SPAM usually markets products or services. This email is nothing of the sort. This is cyber money mule recruiting, and is "legit" in that you could definitely make money. Unfortunately, you would be making money pilfered from victims who opened the wrong email attachment. The perpetrators are Eastern European cyber criminals target small US business money managers with Zeus Trojan email attachments, which they then leverage to hijack the victim's online business checking account. To complete the movement of cash out of the country, these criminals need US-based bank accounts and a "money mule" willing to make a run to Western Union every few days. The gig is great until investigators come knocking on the money mule's door asking what was done with all the money wired into their bank account.
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Anonymous |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
Like this: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/05/cyber-thieves-rob-treasury-credit-union/
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Anonymous |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
Habitat for Humanity does not operate with staff that get commission based on donations. See http://www.habitat.org/how/factsheet.aspx.
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AndrewB 24 Posts |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
This just sounds like a variation of the Nigerian scam with a charity twist. Lend me your bank account, I'll give you a 10% cut.
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AndrewB 2 Posts |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
This just sounds like a variation of the Nigerian scam with a charity twist. Lend me your bank account, I'll give you a 10% cut.
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AndrewB 2 Posts |
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Jun 2nd 2010 1 decade ago |
Did you report that Gmail-account to Google's abuse-address?
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hsalo 3 Posts |
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Jun 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
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