Filed by Ted Richardson:

Over the weekend Chris Gunn (owner of BIZynet) and the newsgroup Biz.Stolen sent me an interesting e-mail with the title “Osam (SP) Bin Laden Captured.” Here is a copy of the e-mail:

From: david.jones@gmail.com
Subject: Osam Bin Laden Captured
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:07:48 -0500
To: biz-stolen@moderators.isc.org

Hey, Just got this from CNN, Osama Bin Laden has been captured! A video and some pictures have been released. Go to the link below for pictures, I will update the page with the video as soon as I can.

*Link removed (by TR), because it was still active when checked earlier today. The “stuff” on here will ruin a good home PC.

Thinking this was too good to be true, I went to the CNN site and found a lot about Bin Laden — who is being featured as part of a special this week — but nothing about him being captured.

Not sure of what was going on, I sent a quick e-mail to Alex Eckelberry (CEO, Sunbelt Software) and Paul Laudanski (CastleCops, PIRT) to see if they would help me get to the bottom of this. Paul and Alex are both very active in helping protect the public against “Internet Sleazebags.”

Alex was kind enough to have Patrick Jordan (Sunbelt) take a look at it and they told me it was from Dollar Revenue. According to a post, I read on another blog - Patrick’s own site was under DDOS attack in June.

Dollar Revenue sounds like they aren’t very nice people.


fyi: Ted Richardson writes at Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds, which sports one of the longest taglines in blogdom:

This blog primarily is a resource to educate people on identity theft, but it also covers all the various schemes, such as bank (credit and check) fraud, counterfeiting, corporate fraud, organized crime in relation to financial crimes, consumer fraud, insurance fraud, tax fraud, pharming and phishing. The crimes frequently mutate and have become borderless because of the internet. Learn to protect yourself by becoming AWARE.

I’m kidding, Ted, I’m kidding!