[vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

[Donald Childs]

> I thought the Secret Service for the most part was the group that
> investigated computer crime.  Or am I behind the times?

You're right. I remember the Bee doing a story in 09/2002 about the Secret
Service Sacramento Branch investigating a variation on the Nigerian Banking
scam.

"Trail of Nigerian bank scheme leads agent right back home, September 24,
2002, By Edgar Sanchez"

The Secret Service , according to the task force staff page,
http://www.sachitechcops.org/agencies.htm , has 2 agents participating.

I imagine that the task force serves as a "clearinghouse" for all
"computer/electronic/internet" crimes that occur in the participating
jurisdictions, so as to make it simpler for people to report crimes to one
agency, vs. trying to ascertain the appropriate law enforcement agency to
contact.

The Bee solicits "scam" stories. Edgar Sanchez mailto:ESanchez@sacbee.com
used to cover them.
(916)321-1132  or mailto:scam@sacbee.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vox-tech-admin@lists.lugod.org
> [mailto:vox-tech-admin@lists.lugod.org]On Behalf Of Michael J Wenk
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:08 PM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:22:43PM -0700, p@dirac.org wrote:
> > On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs <dchilds@scupper.net> said:
> > > Has this been submitted to Citibank or the
> >
> > it's been reported to abuse@citibank.com.  i've been toying around with
> > reporting it to FBI since i'm fairly sure this WILL catch people, and
> > it's not a silly pyramid scheme (remember those?) or nigerian scam (even
> > those are starting to fade away).  i just need to look into who at the
> > FBI gets this sort of stuff.
>
> I thought the Secret Service for the most part was the group that
> investigated computer crime.  Or am I behind the times?
>
> > > Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force (
> > > http://www.sachitechcops.org/ )?
> >
> > wow.  awesome.  i wouldn't mind working for a group like that.  it
> > sounds interesting.
> >
> > but would they care?  pisem.net is in russia and we're now living in new
> > jersey...   :)
>
> Well, it depends I guess, I wouldn't bet against russia cooperating in
> this, its pretty much out and out identity theft, not like its a
> copyright violation or anything. :)
>
> In any event, would depend how widespread this is, and how much money
> could conceivably be stolen.
>
> Mike
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