[IP] EMail Scams and the FBI -- darned good question jdf
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:35:13 -0500
From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: EMail Scams and the FBI
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
It?s interesting see Microsoft and SCO offering a reward of $500,000
between them to track down the creators of the latest pestilence. I wonder
how much that compares with the RIAA?s budget.
In the meantime there are many email messages being sent that are carefully
designed fraudulent letters that try to get people to reveal their
financial information and I haven?t seen any indication of police work to
track down those miscreants. I presume it requires international
cooperation. Yet all I read about are the attempts to crack down and people
who make unauthorized copies of CDs.
I don?t want to pick on the music industry in particular, but I wonder why
such a lack of focus on people doing direct harm to many people vs those
who reduce the profitability of an industry whose skill is PR.
Am I missing somethingis there really a police effort to track down those
committing fraud as well as those using email for DDOS attacks? Or is the
total budget a half a million dollars spent on reward posters?
Is it like the days when the FBI chose its targets with a keen eye to PR
value? Is today?s policing focused the loudest fears rather than pervasive
crime?
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