Silly Nigerians. Everyone knows that real FBI email comes from leo.gov. (eye roll)
A similar scam is also being executed via phone in certain circles. Some client lists were pilfered or otherwise obtained from online meds suppliers. The scammers call each U.S. customer on the phone claiming to be a DEA or FBI agent, saying that someone is en route to arrest them for ordering meds from overseas (claiming its illegal and that hard time is the forthcoming penalty), followed by an offer to halt the arrest if a hefty fine ($800-$2500) is wired to a Western Union account in California within the next hour (although overseas accounts in the reported country of meds origin are also used). It can sound a bit convincing because they have specific info on each target (name, phone number, mailing address) along with the fact that the target has actually ordered specifically named meds from some overseas supplier. Obviously impersonating a federal agent or law enforcement officer is a crime, alongside the crime of scamming a bunch of innocent saps out of their money just because they tried to get meds online at least once out of convenience or whatever. http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm239309.htm Some people admitted that they paid the extortion fee here, during a rash of such calls in late 2011. http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/2022418927 It's obviously not a new scam, but the targets are in a relatively small pool so public awareness of the scam isn't very wide outside of those circles. And no, I wasn't duped by it when they called me. Damn you, cheap overseas Viagra!!! (wink, heh) -Vic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:28:43 -0800 From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmsl...@shaw.ca> To: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: [funsec] WE THE FBI HAVE WARRANT TO ARREST YOU GET BACK TO US FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Message-ID: <4FE0545B.17554.37AC94@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Dang! They're on to me! Shoot! How am I going to get down to speak at conferences in the States, now? Who knew the official FBI email account was on AOL? (One of the things I find funniest about this is that it actually seems to come from Nigeria :-) Return-Path: <fbi.g...@aol.com> Received: from nm21-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm21- vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.220]) by vcn.bc.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1ubuntu1) with SMTP id q5J64Wq2010516 for <rsl...@vcn.bc.ca>; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:04:32 -0700 Received: from [98.139.91.62] by nm21.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jun 2012 06:04:32 -0000 Received: from [98.136.185.46] by tm2.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jun 2012 06:04:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jun 2012 06:04:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 345563.73795...@smtp107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <345563.73795...@smtp107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Received: from User (fbi.gov1@41.58.6.106 with login) by smtp107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2012 06:04:30 +0000 UTC Reply-To: <office1212...@aol.com> From: "FBI OFFICE"<fbi.g...@aol.com> Subject: WE THE FBI HAVE WARRANT TO ARREST YOU GET BACK TO US FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0700 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
