[Scspamcop] Re: Moral obligation to phishing victim?

[Kenneth Brody]

Miss Betsy wrote:
> 
> "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:461BB4AC.55EFAD05 at spamcop.net...
> > Miss Betsy wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a thought - why not notify the police in the town where the person
> >> lives?  Police do health & welfare checks, perhaps they would also notify
> >> potential fraud victims?
> >
> > I called the person who filled out the second page and spoke to
> > her husband.  He sounded appropriately concerned.
> >
> > The rest, I only have their PayPal login and password.  (Or at
> > least, what was their password before the phisher probably changed
> > them.)
> 
> Perhaps PayPal would pay more attention to a voicemail or email from law
> enforcement?  Or maybe they have a direct line?  This is getting
> interesting.  Do you suppose that there is no law enforcement person who is
> looking for sites like the one you found in order to trap the criminal?  Or
> that they wouldn't be interested?

Of course, then the question becomes "which law enforcement?"  Where
is PayPal located?  The hosting computer was in the APNIC address
range.  I have no way of knowing where the phisher is located.  The
IP addresses of those who entered their login info were from all over
the place, and some weren't even within the U.S.

As I said, I called the phone number on PayPal's "contact us" page,
but I got caught up in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike,
and never did find a way to get to a live body.

BTW, the site is now down, including the eBay-phish-to-be.  All I
can get is some page in Chinese by going to the top of the directory
structure.  (Previously, this gave me a directory listing of "/".)
The other paths/filenames are now 404.


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