Scammers launch anti-terrorist hotline
Met Police website spoofed by 419 scammers.
Last month saw the appearance of the latest 419 scamming trick:
'anti-terrorist certificates' sold via a fake version of the London
Metropolitan Police website complete with fake anti-terrorist hotline
number.
The scam referred recipients to what appeared, to all intents and purposes,
to be the official website of the London Met. To the untrained eye, the
genuine and fake sites were almost impossible to tell apart (see
http://momusings.com/momusings/2007/03/police-website-line-up-whos-imposter.html).
However, the scammers' version of the site included a fake anti-terrorist
hotline number.
According to 419-tracking organization Ultrascan Advanced Global
Investigations, the scam directed victims to the fake website to purchase
so-called 'anti-terrorist certificates', needed to secure payments from
abroad.
The fake site, which was hosted in Australia, has now been closed down by
the service provider. According to a spokesperson from the Met, the case
has also been reported to Australia's High Tech Crime Unit for
investigation.
01 April 2007
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