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CREDITWRENCH-TheTruth

This blog is dedicated to illustrating the depths of depravity to debt collectors and their cronies who infest various message boards spewing their spam, insults and filth can and do sink. They will stop at nothing to berate others while trying to elevate their own perceived worth.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Internet scams

Email Scam Uses The Late Sir Denis Thatcher

Proving once again that spammers have little to no conscience, a scam email has been circulating using the death of former British Prime-Minister Margaret Thatcher's late husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, for an identity theft scheme.

Recipients of the fake mailing are told they may be a beneficiary in Sir Denis' last will and testament. According to Sophos

The email, which claims to come from the attorneys of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's late husband, claims that the recipient will receive £950,000 in compensation for work they have done helping the less privileged. The email claims that Sir Denis Thatcher collected the money during his long and successful career in business.

In order to obtain the inheritance, recipients are asked to provide personal information such as documents of identification, address, telephone and fax numbers, in accordance with the British government's inheritance law. This latest scam-mailing attempt further illustrates that the majority of scam mailers are despicable individuals who will not shy away from using any disaster, personal or otherwise, to dupe citizens of out identity information, money, or anything they don't want to work for.

Graham Cluley concurs by saying:

"Scammers are constantly trying to dupe computer users into divulging sensitive information with the promise of big money. Using the late Sir Denis Thatcher's name is a sick trick designed to entice the unwary into falling for the scam."

However dreams of big money are not the only motive for scammers to put in their appearances on the internet. There are many other reasons often times not so easily discerned. One example of an outrageous scammer in operation is a fool who often goes by many different screen names such as "Uncle Normie", "Enormis Debtor", "E. Normis" and many other variations of those names. "Normie" is an imbecile who for what ever sick reason goes about the internet setting up blogs and webpages which are spoofs of those owned and operated by reputable business people whom he hopes to discredit. He then uses proxy servers to hide his true IP address and spams all the newsgroups with fake messages which purport to have originated from the company he is trying to discredit.

Beware of this loony criminal and if you see any of his fake messages just ignore them and move on. His spam messages will always refer to a blog he maintains called creditwrench-thetruth but is full of nothing but falsehoods and misinformation.