Re: Threat mail from russia (followup)

[Vitaly Osipov <vosipov () wolfegroup ie>]

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.Djupvik () globalone net>
> To: <incidents () securityfocus com>
> 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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