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Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person
CrypticSpawn writes "Read on SecurityFocus, a 55 year old woman spammed an FBI computer crime agent. She got caught mailing off a credit card scam to AOL users." Her scam targeted AOL users with messages saying their credit cards were refused during the last billing cycle, and linked to a false billing center page which demanded private information.
I can't be the only one that finds it disturbing that the FBI uses AOL.
Uh oh, looks like Phish has made the headlines AGAIN. Ah well.
--matt
No wonder I get so many email offers for Viagra and low-cost prescription drugs!
The darwin award exists for those who kill them selves in stupid ways... we need to invent an award for idiots that fall for obvious scams like this.
There is - it's called "Manager".
My fav line out of that page has to be this :)
"Your current information will be stored in a 256-bit encrypted protected server."
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
Honestly, is amazes me that people fall for crap like this. It always reads like someone in bulgaria wrote it with with an English/Bulgarian dictionary. My favorite misspellings/miswordings are "asterik" and "social insurance number".
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Your information conflicts with the dogma I have assimilated by reading slashdot. Your moderate response, in place of a knee-jerk over-reaction, has left me, angry, frustrated and impotent. FBI empolyes are evil, fly black helicopters powered by Microsoft and MSN, and are not to be treated with the even temperment I would expect of someone who didn't know me. As such, I must say you flamebait is not welcome, and will not be tolerated.
Oh yeah? Well you,. . . ummmmmmmmmm, what I mean to say is. . .
NAZI!!!!!
Yeah, I think that's it.
Oh, wait. I can't talk now, there's an important message on the TV just for me and they're waving something shiney that goes "Ping!" It's not even $100, just 79 payments of $19.95.
Wow! I can afford $19.95
Gotta go.
KFG
There are certain items of the arcana that are only available to the wise. Ok, some MCSEs know them too, but only a few.
Do wish to have arcane knowledge and be the envy of your 133t friends? How on earth those spammers, well know for deep knowledge of the darkside, produce a cent sign when it isn't on the keyboard?
You (sir/madam) have been carefully selected as one the few who have what it takes to secret forces and such power right at your fingertips!
Don't be a clueless dork anymore. Just send $19.95. Your seat at the table of the Illuminati is waiting. . . for you (sir/madam)!!!
KFG
"Entering Fraudulent information is against the law. If done so on this form you are now hereby notified that AOL will persecute, fine, and charge anybody trying to commit fraud with our accounts.
persecute:
Caveman eats poisen berries, caveman dies. Friends of said caveman discover berries were to blame for death, note that no one should ever eat the berries. Another caveman comes along, fails to read the large warning signs posted outside the forest. He eats the berries and dies. Original caveman's friends laugh. The End If you ask me, such obvious scams shouldn't be shut down. Instead they should be allowed to eliminate societies stupider members. -SniperBoB-
http://brandonbloom.name
No, poeple don't. They're probably very used to seeing spelling errors on the Internet, so it doesn't phase them.
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
Darwin Awards: People who kill themselves
Dilbert Awards: People who support spam
sigh. Can I have some points for -trying- to be funny?
-Where there is blue screen, there is OWNAGE