Re: Warning: Trolling for Dollars, Scammers hard at work {was: forged Failure Notice}

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

At 09:38 PM 7/17/03 -0400, Robert Holmgren wrote:
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>** Reply to message from Norman Bauman  on Thu, 17 Jul
2003
>10:59:49 -0400
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>> I would think that PayPal could track the sender down and prosecute them.
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>Lotsa luck! The Email sent to me reported to a Russian "free mail" server
>(hotbox.ru) disguised as a ".net" address.

They could set up a honey pot by replying to the message with an artificial
account. If the spammer actually gets any money, they could track the
transaction down. Money transfers have a better audit trail than web pages.

One of the ISPs (Earthlink?) tracked down and prosecuted a spammer in
upstate New York, which was difficult but not impossible. So PayPal should
have a good chance of finding the spammer, I would conclude.

Norman
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