WHAT HEELS!: E-Mail Extortionists

 

How would you like to get an e-mail like this: “I've been hired to kill you, it's one of your friends, I'm watching you. However … I don't believe you did what they said, and I'm going to give you a chance to pay me, and I won't kill you.”

 

Jessica Walker, 28, of Manassas, VA, got such an e-mail at work, reports The Washington Post. If she paid the “hit man” $15,000, she would get audiotapes of his conversations with the person who wanted her killed. Instead of responding, she called the police.

 

The e-mails - an extortion scam making the rounds since December 2006 – are meant to frighten the recipient into divulging bank account information. Authorities recommend reporting “hit man e-mail” to the Internet Crime Complaint Center – a joint operation of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.

Posted by The Stiletto at February 29, 2008
Categories: What a Heel
 

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