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419 Scam Blow-by-Blow
timbos writes "Check out this six-page dissection of a 419 scam at The Register. In particular, the fake banking site that the fraudsters set up is interesting..."
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Just in case nobody else posts it:
http://www.419eater.com/
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...is as interesting site found when researching these scams, Scam-o-rama. It contains lots of e-mail conversations with scammers and also some funny pictures. They also have an interesting case when somebody actually scammed the scammers (see the stories marked in red)
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Yes! There several things that are out there to help promote knowledge about these types of scams. There are a couple of websites this:
1) http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml : website from the Secret Service providing info about the 419 scam
2)www.419eater.com : this website is dedicated to scambaiting and information about 419. Includes a forum. "scambaiting" is a term used often to describe when someone pretends to be interested in a scam, but tries to waste as much of the scammer's time and resources as possible, in an attempt to keep him busy on the scambaiter, rather then on a potential victim
3) Scamorama.com : similar to 419eater.com. Includes news on 419 scams, forum as well.
4) aa419.org : this is dedicated to attacking 419 scammers with websites. It does this by stealing bandwidth from scammer websites, fake banks, etc. For example, the one listed in this article, www.umicb.com, is a fake bank. This site does it by taking images from the fakebank's websites, and then reloading its webpage, thus stealing bandwidth. At the first of every month, there is a 419 "Flash mob", where about a dozen or so fake bank sites' images are loaded to a specific page, and then many, many people go to these sites, in an attempt to shut down as many sites as possible.
5) if you do a search on google for "419 scam", there are also lots of sites.
...the new Spam mail with links?
What do you mean new? I've been getting 419 spam for years which contains links to news sites that support the story. For a while, I was collecting the different ones just for fun, and of the 800 or so such messages I got in about six months, almost 200 have references to legit news sites....
US law enforcement do care. Check out all of the US agencies fighting 419 scams on this page.
Not really. Statistically the poor and uneducated tend to have MORE children than eductaed middle class and above families. Take a drive though your local ghetto/trailer park and check out the preganant teenage high school dropouts with three kids trailing behind them.
This natural selection thing has got some bugs.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
You might find this book a fascinating read. It was written in the 1800s
Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings! -Feynman, maybe
The whole purpose to steal ID PINS and Passwords.
If you are a usbank member, beware any mail claiming need you to log in for some security check.
Letter To Iran
Anyone who is curious about those movie/phone/internet kiosk commercials you're always seeing on the SciFi channel ought to check out kioskscams.com. According to this site (set up by one of the victims) they're all shell companies being run by the same group of criminals operating in Florida.
These guys collect the money under a shell corporation, declare bankruptcy, then move on to a new set of victims under a new corporate name. Neither the state of Florida nor the U.S. government has moved against them yet. At $20K (or more) per victim, the kiosk scammers make 419 scammers look like petty thieves by comparison.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.