UK drop address for 419 scam

[Richard Clayton]

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Of marginal interest to this list, but the topic has been discussed
several times over the past year or so.

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.

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).

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) ?

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

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