Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Fri Jun 14 13:24:09 PDT 2002


The https cert for e-golb shows up as "snake oil" in all the fields.


www.snakeoil.dom
Snake Oil, Ltd
Webserver Team
Snake Town
Snake Desert, XY
emailAddress: www at snakeoil.dom

Snake Oil CA
Snake Oil, Ltd
Certificate Authority
Snake Town


Nice scam...  Probably snorted cypherpunks for email addrs and spammed'em
all.

All the top bar links point to the real e-gold site.... nice...

----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---------------------------
 + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\
  \|/  :aren't security.  A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\
<--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you   \/|\/
  /|\  :masked killer, but  |don't email them, or put them on a web  \|/
 + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often.
--------_sunder_ at _sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Michael Motyka wrote:

> Look at the two sites :
> 
> http://www.e-gold.com
> 
> http://www.e-golb.com - 
> 
> BTW the registrant's info is phony, Docent doesn't know her, carder.com
> user search fails, may she get boiled alive someday
> 
> I never opened an e-gold account. I wonder where the fuckers got my
> e-mail address - here or because I check markets on kitco?
> 
> Mike
> 
> e-mail excerpt : 
> 
>         Reply-To: 
>                  "" <UpdatesRobot_donotreply at e-gold.com>
>             From: 
>                  "" <UpdatesRobot_donotreply at e-gold.com>
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>   * * * Important information about your e-gold account * * *
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> e-gold Account User Agreement updates
> 
> Please go in yours account and read
> e-gold User Agreement using the link below.
> 
>  * * * IMPORTANT * *
> Only after logging in and reading updates you can continue spend e-gold.
> Click here for login.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
>          Thank you for using e-gold!
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> This automatic email sent to: mmotyka at lsil.com
> Do not reply to this email.
> 
> www.e-gold.com





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