[geeks] Another spam question?

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 09:57:36 CDT 2009


gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:43:06AM -0400, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> As most of you know I keep a wordpress blog at http://vote4katz.com ... I
>> recently received a spam comment in my queue. There is nothing out of the
>> normal here, usually askimet takes care o f most of them for me.
>>
>> I'm troubled by the content of this particular piece of spam. Instead 
>> of the
>> typical MLM or drugs without an Rx this specifically links to a kit to
>> build/purchase an ATM card skimmer.
>>
>> I don't feel comfortable ignoring this and not forwarding it to the
>> authorities.
>>
>> So who does this go to? The secret service? FBI? Should I ignore it?
> 
> Remove and Ignore it.
> 
> Very likely the person selling it is outside the US and there is nothing 
> they
> can or will do about it.

Or you can report it to http://ic3.gov , but as Geoff said it's most 
likely outside the US and nothing will happen with it.

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