I had a friend with an IDENTICAL story... Stuck in London, she had been robbed and desperately needed money to get home. Turns out her facebook account had been hacked (probably poor password security). Anyway, these guys even went as far as start chatting with me on IM (MSN and FB chat), attempting to get me to wire money to some foreign bank. Being a natural born cynic, compounded by bad English and too short answers, I smelled a rat. I tried to trap the person on the other end - started asking personal questions that my friend should have known about my family, that shut down the conversation and they immediately logged off. I told her about the hack and then reported it to msn and facebook "authorities", but nothing ever came of it.
AFAIK no one really cares, unless you have some physical evidence or a location on the offenders. Anecdotal evidence: Another friend of mine contacted the FBI in a different internet scam (the old cash for cashiers check scam). The local field office asked him if he knew who the defrauders were or where to find them, he didn't, so the agent thanked him for the report and brushed him off. You could do some inter-web investigating on your own, but it's not easy to track down black-hats in a foreign country who are relaying all over the world - you'll likely end up angry and frustrated. Keep the group updated on any developments, I'm curious to know if you get anywhere. Good hunting. -- Joel On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Lloyd Kvam <pyt...@venix.com> wrote: > A friend's webmail account (@msn.com) appears to have been hacked. I > received a request to wire $1470 to London (UK) to help her out. She > was mugged and lost her cash and credit cards. > > Is there any place to report this sort of email that might actually do > some good? > > I'll start with ab...@msn.com, but would love to find out about better > alternatives. > > -- > Lloyd Kvam > Venix Corp > DLSLUG/GNHLUG library > http://dlslug.org/library.html > http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug > http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug > http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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