The online Hitman scammer who threatens to kill recipients if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender, is still sending out thousands of emails and the FBI is again today warning users to ignore the spam and report any incidents to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
Two new versions of the scheme began appearing in July 2008, the FBI said. One instructed the recipient to contact a telephone number contained in the e-mail and the other claimed the recipient or a "loved one" was going to be kidnapped unless a ransom was paid. Recipients of the kidnapping threat were told to respond via e-mail within 48 hours. The sender was to provide the location of the wire transfer five minutes before the deadline and threatened bodily harm if the ransom was not received within 30 minutes of the time frame given. The recipients' personally identifiable information was included in the e-mail to promote that appearance that the sender actually knew the recipient and their location, the FBI said.
In February, the FBI said it was receiving numerous complaints from users in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming The Hitman scam has also been reported in Washington, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan since January.
The scam e-mail, which first appeared in December 2006, purports to be a hired assassin, but is in reality a mass spamming looking to grab your personal information. Replying to the e-mails just sends a signal to senders that they've reached a live account. It also escalates the intimidation, the FBI said in a report last year.
In some instances, the use of names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of government officials, business executives and/or victims' PII are used in an attempt to make the fraud appear more authentic, the FBI stated.
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fbi scammers and demanding money
I had a few internet emails from a group that claims they are from the fbi and i needed to pay money to a bank in nigra or they would come and arrest me i thought something was fishy about the email so i contacted the fbi i sent them the email they responded to me that they were handling it with the best of their care the next day i recieved a death threat email from a imposter claiming he was from the fbi i thought something was fishy again so i called the fbi office in washington dc i sent them the emails that was sent to me they have no responded back and now i read this email i thought something was wrong with this and i read that i was shocked.
i am thinking it is online terosits doing this to people they steal email accounts when u fill out surveys hack into bank information or other businesses and take personal information about the person they do not care if you are rich or poor or disabiled or alive or dead they will do what they can to scare the living day lights out of inocent people.
there should be more laws to protect us since we are in the digital age of computers and the internet they need to protect the inocent and nail the crimminals with bad grammer and spelling and catch these crooks and throw there ass in qutomeno bay prison and torture there asses for being sly crooks.
the goverment wants us to be happy and free how can we when we are scared out of our minds and scared we are being spyed on and targated.
dayum people and their crooked ways.
Crazy times
This guy needs to fry. It's insane that he can get away with doing this to innocent people. If he comes near me my French Mastiff will bite him!
Good post.For the next day i
Good post.For the next day i recieved a death threat email from a imposter claiming he was from the fbi i thought something was fishy again so i called the fbi office in washington dc i sent them the emails that was sent to me they have no responded back.Thnx for sharing.Hid Kit
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Great post for the upcoming day.The person in an Acne skin community belong to this.I sent them the email they responded to me that they were handling it with the best of their care the next day i received a death threat email from a impostor claiming he was from the FBI i thought something was fishy again so i called the fbi office in Washington dc.Thanks for the interesting post.
Well this can be clearly
Well this can be clearly seen through the murders that are taking place,Well lot of indians have been killed as they dint give money when they were demanded to give.
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Thanks for sharing.
The sender was to provide
The sender was to provide the location of the wire transfer five minutes before the deadline and threatened bodily harm if the ransom was not received within 30 minutes of the time frame given.Thanks for sharing.Super Mario 63
Great sharing.I thought
Great sharing.I thought something was fishy again so i called the FBI office in Washington dc i sent them the emails that was sent to me they have no responded back and now i read this email.Conservatory Blinds
I am thinking it is online
I am thinking it is online terosits doing this to people they steal email accounts when u fill out surveys hack into bank information or other businesses and take personal information about the person they do not care if you are rich or poor or disabiled or alive or dead they will do what they can to scare the living day lights out of inocent people.
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