Author: Tehrasha DarkonTehrasha Darkon
Date: Feb 14, 2008 12:01
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:08:19 -0600, dead wrote:
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> St. Louis For years, they played on greed.
>
> E-mail scammers and spammers have long offered lavish rewards to those
> naive enough to post cash to spirit money out of a foreign country or to
> collect on a lottery ticket.
>
> Now cyber-thieves are turning to a sharper edge: death threats and
> outright extortion.
>
> A woman who works downtown was told in an e-mail Wednesday night that
> the sender had been paid by someone to kill her but would renege for a
> price.
This 'latest' scam has been going on for over a year...
Is St.Louis really that far behind?
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