Hit Man Email Scammer Back With a Vengeance

coondoggie writes "The online Hitman scammer, who threatens to kill recipients if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender, is still sending out thousands of emails and the FBI is again today warning users to ignore the spam and report any incidents to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Two new versions of the scheme began appearing in July 2008, the FBI said. One instructed the recipient to contact a telephone number contained in the e-mail and the other claimed the recipient or a 'loved one' was going to be kidnapped unless a ransom was paid."

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Speaking of spammers

[Eccles]

One idiot spammer keeps making up addresses from my domain for his reply-to address. So of course I get all his mailer-daemon bounces. So two questions: first, if I could track him down, could I sue for damages? B, how hard is it typically to track the b-tards down?