On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:01 -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: > I get a lot of spams where I am being "offered" a lucrative occupation > that involves transferring finanscial assets from one place to > another. It is clearly a scam, however, I am now sure what. Are these > for thieves who are moving stolen money to their real accounts, using > victims as decoys (maybe chained)?
No, they are "transferring" money to your account, then back again, then the first transfer bounces, and you are left with the liability on the second transfer.... So the person who answers is the direct victim. > Is this business so huge as to > warrant several dozen such spams per day? Is something done to catch > these criminals? That's a question for your Attorney General, or whatever the local equivalent would be... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
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