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From: <ad...@ta...> - 2004-05-15 03:25:15
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<html> <body> <P>Dear Mr. Sullivan</P> <P>Due to recent outbreak in fraud transactions we were forced to stop automatic exchanges and<BR>start performing them manually. Unfortunately that did not help. We are still experiencing<BR>influx of fraudulent exchange requests.</P> <P>Starting from May we are imposing 2 days hold period on all exchanges. We will complete<BR>transaction only after 2 days after we received money from customer.</P> <P>This is our official statement: if your money have been stolen from your account in any of the<BR>payment systems that we are working with can contact us. We will check our records and tell you FREE OF CHARGE if these money were transferred through any of our accounts. All we need to know is transaction number (for security purposes you don't need to provide us with your account number). If we find that these money went to any of our accounts and we still have them, we'll return them back to you for only 2% service charge. You will have to proove us that you are legitimate owner of these funds though. Naturally official request from e-gold for refund is enough evidence for us.</P> <P>If you have any questions don't hesistate ask them on our site<BR><A href="http://www.speed-exchange.com">http://www.speed-exchange.com</A></P> <P>Alex Desantos, CEO<BR>Speed-Exchange & Talk-Gold Corp.<BR>phone: (702) 549-8613<BR>fax: (702) 549-8651<BR>email: <A href="mailto:ad...@ta...">ad...@ta...</A></P> <P>----------------------------------------<BR>Debit cards, E-Gold, Evocash, NetPay exchange on <A href="http://www.speed-exchange.com">http://www.speed-exchange.com</A> <BR>Our forum on <A href="http://www.talkgold.com">http://www.talkgold.com</A> <BR>This is confidential message and is intended only for its primary recipient. If you received<BR>this message by mistake please immediatelly notify administrator.</P> </body> </html> |
Mr Alex Desantos, I suggest stop sending e-mails from e-gold to val...@li.... This is an e-mail list intended for users and developers of an open source software program called Valgrind. If any of your customers are registered with this e-mail address, they are most likely fraudulent, and using this mailing list to hide their identities. If it helps, the e-mail was addressed to a "Mr. Sullivan". Sincerely, Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se> Speaking as a member of the valgrind-users mailing list. On Sat, 15 May 2004 ad...@ta... wrote: > > Dear Mr. Sullivan > > Due to recent outbreak in fraud transactions we were forced to stop automatic exchanges > and > start performing them manually. Unfortunately that did not help. We are still > experiencing > influx of fraudulent exchange requests. > > Starting from May we are imposing 2 days hold period on all exchanges. We will complete > transaction only after 2 days after we received money from customer. > > This is our official statement: if your money have been stolen from your account in any > of the > payment systems that we are working with can contact us. We will check our records and > tell you FREE OF CHARGE if these money were transferred through any of our accounts. All > we need to know is transaction number (for security purposes you don't need to provide us > with your account number). If we find that these money went to any of our accounts and we > still have them, we'll return them back to you for only 2% service charge. You will have > to proove us that you are legitimate owner of these funds though. Naturally official > request from e-gold for refund is enough evidence for us. > > If you have any questions don't hesistate ask them on our site > http://www.speed-exchange.com > > Alex Desantos, CEO > Speed-Exchange & Talk-Gold Corp. > phone: (702) 549-8613 > fax: (702) 549-8651 > email: ad...@ta... > > ---------------------------------------- > Debit cards, E-Gold, Evocash, NetPay exchange on http://www.speed-exchange.com > Our forum on http://www.talkgold.com > This is confidential message and is intended only for its primary recipient. If you > received > this message by mistake please immediatelly notify administrator. > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored > by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest > 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click > _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list > Val...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users > -- Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se> |
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Robert Walsh wrote: > Hi Per, > > Pretty much the worst thing you can do to a spammer is send him a > reply. It validates the original email. The best thing is to ignore it > and/or use a decent spam filter. > > Regards, > Robert. > > -- > Robert Walsh > Amalgamated Durables, Inc. - "We don't make the things you buy." > Email: rj...@du... Sorry for being an idiot. I will proceed to put a brown paper bag over my head -- and I'll try to get it right this time. I know who e-gold are, and that they are legitimate, but me being rather tired when I sent the mail, I didn't notice that the e-mail was in fact sent from another domain, talkgold.com. I just visited it, and it doesn't seem very... credible. Apparently, talkgold.com want transaction numbers to defraud their customers. This seems to be a very directed spam, too, precisely at e-gold.com customers -- and it doesn't seem to need any of those typical anti-spam-filter crap in it, since it's very limited in circulation. Still, valgrind-users has been getting e-mails from e-gold.com themselves warning of similar e-mails and newsletters and the like, so it is more than likely that one of e-gold.com's accounts is registered to this e-mail address, so I stand by my original claim, there probably is an e-gold account registered to this e-mail address -- val...@li... -- and it most likely is being used for fraudulent purposes, so that the fraudster can hide behind a fake e-mail address, and read the e-mail sent to it without having to reveal his identity. I'm attaching the original e-mail for reference -- so that e-gold might use it to track down a fraudulent account. -- Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se> |