Venditoris: Beware of Scams

419 Scam – (Advance Fee Fraud)

• About the 419 scam

The criminals who perpetrate “419″ fraud try to conceal their identity by using disposable web mail accounts, insecure PHP-Nuke servers and internet service providers with inadequate abuse handling procedures.

Joewein.de LLC tracks scammers by email addresses.

They also track scammers by IP address wherever possible. These IP addresses are more static than email address, since criminals use the same internet cafes to send and receive email.

Spam recipients can easily search for these and find them on their list of known fraud email addresses. They can also file abuse complaints to get these accounts shut down, which interrupts many scams.

That also means new email addresses get created at a rapid pace. Joewein add about 2000 new scam email addresses per week, which gives one a rough idea how many criminals are involved.
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