Dear Mr. Spammer (identity theft)
...welcome to another edition of Dear Mr. Spammer - there's always something out there to write Mr. Spammer about because he is so gosh darn prolific. I don't know about you, but I get at least 200 emails a day from Mr. Spammer - he obviously has something to say.
Dear Mr. Spammer,
Today you wrote me about how to obtain fake identity documents. Instead of clicking your link, I decided to trace the IP address that showed up on it first, and I managed to trace you to someplace called Enterprise Networks in Korea.
Figuring that you aren't that well hidden anymore, I decided to visit your website.
Apparently for only $40 you can tell me how to set up discreet mail drops, remotely set up phone numbers so that I can appear as an international organization, how to obtain anonymous ATM and debit cards, and a host of other things like obtaining a fake title and the like.
Of course, I could just start up a new email address, an ezboard account, a fake blog link and keep a crib sheet around to keep my real identity and my fake one separate, right? Of course, perhaps you need to convince me a little more, considering that I recently had someone attempt to pose as me somewhere already, and as many people said, there's only one WhizGidget.
Somehow I don't think that you can do what you claim that you can, but I suspect that it may be true. After all, there are folks out there who would probably drop the $40 to be able to know (even just out of curiousity) how to manage all these things, and as a result you'll obtain all thier information and resell it. And, thus, you would have legal information on people that you could resell to someone else whose identity that you would farm for information and so on. It would be an unending, constantly replenishing pool of identification information.
Then again, maybe you *can* do what you claim, and all that information that I just traced was 100% phony. Wouldn't *that* be a true testament to what you can do!!! WOW. What a real accomplishment that would truly be! But then, if that information I traced is actually a false front for a real individual, then I *don't* know exactly who you are, now do I?
Of course, I could just pay you for the service to attempt to find out who you are and what you really do, but considering the possibility that the information I just traced could be false, I wouldn't want to give my money to a perfect stranger, would I? Especially one that's taken pains to try and hide thier true identity from me in the first place.
I'm sure you understand, but thanks anyway.
-WhizGidget-
*not my real name*