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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."
sending out death threats to all and sundry . . . I hope law enforcement gets to the silly buggers before some real killers do
needs to meet offline hitman
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
Has the internet stabbing device been invented?
(from http://www.bash.org/?4281 )
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Well, pay me $1000 or your mother in law will receive this immortality drug...
The people who figure it's a scam realize their mistake too late. The gullible pay and live. In the end only people who click on everything and respond to spam will be left. *Wake up, you're having a nightmare!*
I thought it was standard procedure to first kidnap and then request a ransom. Why would people pay a ransom -provided they feel really threatened by the email - if noone is kidnapped yet? They can always pay ransom when the kidnapping is actually done?
I suspect you have to be gullible and paranoid with a dash of guilty conscience thrown in to fall for this scam.
Hey you... yeah you. The fat guy with cheetoh stained fingers and an external drive loaded with furry porn. Mod me up or I'll take all your action figures out of their original packaging.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
Unless you pay me $9000
You left the word 'not' out of your subject.
how do you know i'm paranoid by nature? who told you that? do you have other information about me? WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
According to About.com:
FBI agent: there's only one country that has english grammar this bad...
Police Detective: The Russians!
FBI agent: exactly. It's either them or Mrs. Gleason's 8th grade english class.
Police Detective: But the Russians have rock solid alibis.
FBI agent: let's lean on the kids, and see if any of them get nervous.
ive been paying him for years. still alive.
me: 1, phantom interblag assassin: 0.
Good people go to bed earlier.
She's dead, Jim. :P
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Will Mr. Hitman accept as payment the bogus $14,000 cashier's check some Nigerian scammer sent me to buy my $11,000 car?
Will he Western Union the excess back to me?
If you ever want to build a collection of fake cashier's checks, list a car on Craigslist.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
This spammer isn't just stealing advertising and committing millions of instances of petty theft. A death threat is a felony in itself, and this clown is racking up enough separate crimes for his sentence to run to thousands of lifetimes.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Perfect scenario for micropayments! You could send 2000 e-mails and hope one person will pony up $1000 to avoid any downfall, or you can send 2000 e-mails and offer to take them off your hitlist for a mere dollar. At a low 50% return rate, you've made the original $1000, and the potential for more is much higher!
Seriously, criminals these days.
I thought it was Windows Genuine Advantage.