On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
To my surprise, the Special Agent called back and pleaded with me. He changed his story and said they had means of sending and receiving email, but they _weren't allowed_ to give out their email addresses.
I know this is supposed to be the Secret Service, but keeping their email addresses secret is going a bit far IMHO. I would think most computer-security professionals would know how to set up a temporary and/or anonymous email address.
I hope he enjoys transcribing the scammers' 350-character-long URLs from the paper I sent.
Shouldn't be too hard, seems they are used to pencil and paper :-)
I put the info on a secure web site and suggested he pull it down from there, but he declined that, too.
Because you could pick off his login and trace him back :-)
The Special Agent was surprised to hear that I controlled multiple web sites. He didn't understand how that was possible.
The Special Agent was surprised to hear that given an IP address, I could figure out what country it's in. He argued with me about this. The term "whois" meant nothing to him.
Heretofore I didn't understand how identity- theft rings could operate so openly. One might have thought they would be afraid of stings, but evidently they're not.
There's a lot of darkness here. I've set out a few candles, but I'm not sure it's going to be enough.
More proof all our fears of the government actually being dangerous are totally false. They are incompetent beyond comprehension. I think I better go check out that movie "Brazil" again. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike