Fraudster Impersonated a Lawyer to Steal Domains, Pleads Guilty

[JB7]

Moral of the story: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (or lolcat)

Wired

 

[replic8te]

I dunno, I have a couple law firms for clients on the IT consulting side, and if you only judged by their email addresses, youd think they were scammers.

Nice article, thanks.

 

[JB7]

I agree a NetZero account to a savvy internet user or domainer is definitely a tip-off.

 

[BostonDomainer]

What a retard.... every one knows if you're going to impersonate a high powered lawyer to try to hijack domain names you use J.B.H..... Geez, what a noob.

 

[JB7]

I agree,

how does this sound?

[email protected]. That ought to get the job done unnoticed.

 

[Salient]

[email protected]

 

[missedcall]

xaxa ...its MY GUY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=165435

Update: The story goes like this
I called to real Kelly Y. Chang telling her that this scammer was using her name to get illegal access to domains. She told me another user has warn her about such email came from the same guy. I told her to call police - after a while he told me that FBI assigned the case to an agent & gave me his contacts and I forward him all the e-mails sent by the scammer (with original headers). From this point they tracked him down, seems that he sent many fraud emails and someone believed this scam and gave him his name.

Of course I kept the FBI contact and I already used it widesly for another scam.

 

[JB7]

missedcall,

You have most likely saved some people a lot of time, energy and worry about their domains.

Kudos