In the last two weeks, two major frauds have been perpetrated online. One claimed to be the IRS, telling millions about a phone tax rebate, the most recent has been ironically a fraud warning from the FTC.
Both of these emails, widely distributed, referred the user back to exact replicas of the us .gov sites, and then attempted to get users to give their social security numbers.
I followed one of these on a public library computer to a site run by something called snowpony... then I called the IRS to find out if they knew.
They told me they knew of the frauds, but that they had no means of tracing them.
Do you believe that the government is really powerless to track illegal activities on the web? I build web pages for a living, and I have to often track web sites to servers because my clients lose their record of who they took their accounts with. I can always find the provider within a day.
What are your thoughts about this? Did you receive the IRS or the FTC emails
2007-10-31
10:05:25
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