On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 08:01 AM, Sunder wrote: > This morning I received this threatening letter, apparently from egold > claiming that my maximum balance would be set to zero if I don't > promptly > mail them notarized copies of various ID's... Oh, and somehow the > defrauder believes that my true name is Thomas something or other... > > As I have no relationship whatsoever with egold and as I did receive > the > last attempt at defrauding egold by spam from e-golb.com, I thought I'd > expose this. > > Notice the 1st receive line it's from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" vewwwy suspicious! > > Any idea what lives at 175 East Nasa Blvd, Melbourne FL 32901? Google > shows Assurance Technology Corp, Bank of America (via SpaceCoastEDC > (Flordia's Space Coast Economic Development Commission. web page.) > > Likely it's a big office building, so it could be several addresses > there... I wonder which TLA or scam artist this is. >
I received a similar letter, and also one from PayPal/EBay which was quite similar in language. The full headers of the E-gold letter are included at the end of this message. I don't _have_ an E-gold account (never saw the need for it), so this letter is very strange. I do have a PayPal account, used a couple of times. When I attempted to access the URL provided I got timed-out. No idea why. And I have no idea whether the timing of the two letters (both this morning) is related. Here are the headers of the E-gold message I got: From: [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of image.tiff] Dear e-gold customer, This is a due diligence request. We have set a value limit on your e-gold account (For security purposes, your e-gold account number is not specified in this email.) of US $500 in accordance with Right of Association provisions of the e-gold Account User Agreement:
