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FYI…
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2yg7rn
April 24, 2007 (Computerworld) - "A new wave of extortion e-mails that threaten recipients with bodily harm and death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the Internet, according to security vendor SecureWorks Inc. The e-mails are sent directly to the victims from valid e-mail accounts instead of the usual spam relays and bot proxies – an apparent attempt to make them seem authentic. The accounts are set up by scammers purporting to be assassins hired by third parties to harm the recipients. The sender offers to spare the recipient from harm in return for thousands of dollars. About 1,000 of the e-mails have been spotted over the past few days, and they appear to be targeted largely at higher-income professionals such as doctors, lawyers and business owners, according to Don Jackson, a researcher at SecureWorks. The numbers could be higher because many people don't report the e-mails, he said. A similar run of e-mails in December and January prompted the FBI to issue an alert* about the scam and urge recipients to simply ignore the messages…"
* http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan07/threat_scam011507.htm
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2yg7rn
April 24, 2007 (Computerworld) - "A new wave of extortion e-mails that threaten recipients with bodily harm and death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the Internet, according to security vendor SecureWorks Inc. The e-mails are sent directly to the victims from valid e-mail accounts instead of the usual spam relays and bot proxies – an apparent attempt to make them seem authentic. The accounts are set up by scammers purporting to be assassins hired by third parties to harm the recipients. The sender offers to spare the recipient from harm in return for thousands of dollars. About 1,000 of the e-mails have been spotted over the past few days, and they appear to be targeted largely at higher-income professionals such as doctors, lawyers and business owners, according to Don Jackson, a researcher at SecureWorks. The numbers could be higher because many people don't report the e-mails, he said. A similar run of e-mails in December and January prompted the FBI to issue an alert* about the scam and urge recipients to simply ignore the messages…"
* http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan07/threat_scam011507.htm