Browade
20 August 2006, 14:33
I work closely with many in the baiting community as well as with LEO, and as part of this some of my friends at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service helped me to set up postal addresses where baiters can have the fraudsters send fake checks. In this way I can capture many counterfeit postal money orders and/or treasury checks, and forward them to USPIS and USSS.
Recently we received proof of fraudsters stealing their victims identities, from one of these mail drops.
A baiter was baiting a Nigerian fraudster in Lagos, who was running one of the I need a representative in the US/Canada to receive payments for me scams. The payments being received were of course arriving in the form of counterfeited cashiers checks.
This baiter was using a false identity that would immediately set off alarms with most of us, sort of like using the name MICKY MOUSE. All of the information they used with their character was completely fictional, but as with most of these representative frauds, they had to provide more personal details than would usually be furnished in other types. After all they are being hired to represent a company as a payment clerk.
Checks had already arrived at drop boxes in 2 different states and when a third arrived, it was unexpected but that does happen sometimes. When I opened the envelope I was surprised to discover that instead of a check, it was a letter from Chase Bank. The letter informed the false identity that Chase could not approve their requested BILL ME LATER account, for their recent $564 on-line purchase from Wal-Mart.com because Equifax could not verify their information. :o
In this case, only the on-line sales service lost out, and we can only hope they confirmed the status of the BILL ME LATER account before they shipped the products, which apparently were scheduled for shipment to a different address. Though I will not post the name being used by the baiter, I will assure you that it was so ridiculous that it should have set off mental alarms with anyone in the US or Canada when they saw such an order or application.
What this does prove is that some of the Nigerian fraud gangs are now actively supplementing their scams with identity theft.
THE LETTER RECEIVED:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m267/uhavemail/CopyofRobinYublind.jpg
Recently we received proof of fraudsters stealing their victims identities, from one of these mail drops.
A baiter was baiting a Nigerian fraudster in Lagos, who was running one of the I need a representative in the US/Canada to receive payments for me scams. The payments being received were of course arriving in the form of counterfeited cashiers checks.
This baiter was using a false identity that would immediately set off alarms with most of us, sort of like using the name MICKY MOUSE. All of the information they used with their character was completely fictional, but as with most of these representative frauds, they had to provide more personal details than would usually be furnished in other types. After all they are being hired to represent a company as a payment clerk.
Checks had already arrived at drop boxes in 2 different states and when a third arrived, it was unexpected but that does happen sometimes. When I opened the envelope I was surprised to discover that instead of a check, it was a letter from Chase Bank. The letter informed the false identity that Chase could not approve their requested BILL ME LATER account, for their recent $564 on-line purchase from Wal-Mart.com because Equifax could not verify their information. :o
In this case, only the on-line sales service lost out, and we can only hope they confirmed the status of the BILL ME LATER account before they shipped the products, which apparently were scheduled for shipment to a different address. Though I will not post the name being used by the baiter, I will assure you that it was so ridiculous that it should have set off mental alarms with anyone in the US or Canada when they saw such an order or application.
What this does prove is that some of the Nigerian fraud gangs are now actively supplementing their scams with identity theft.
THE LETTER RECEIVED:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m267/uhavemail/CopyofRobinYublind.jpg