UK drop address for 419 scam

[Ben Laurie]

Richard Clayton wrote:
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> Of marginal interest to this list, but the topic has been discussed
> several times over the past year or so.
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> The 419 scams I regularly receive have been mutating lately. They seldom
> come from Lagos any more, but have been sent via US systems and using
> address lists that have been clearly borrowed from more conventional
> spammers.
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> Today's example turned up from verestar.net (at an educated guess, it's
> a poorly secured customer machine) addressed to a fake identity that
> occurs on one place only on the web, but - and this is new - with a UK
> drop address (at totalise.co.uk).
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> It's interesting to see these criminals operating without any regard to
> frontiers in this way -- and interesting too to see that because we've
> tolerated bulk unsolicited email for so long, others are now borrowing
> the mechanisms. I wonder whether Totalise will manage to shut the
> account promptly (it's clearly in their interest to do so, in order to
> avoid such people using them again in the future) ?

Another thing we've noticed is they've started asking for more than bank
details - the latest wants you to travel to Milan - for physical
threats? Or what?

Cheers,

Ben.

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