Prescient
22nd December 2006, 02:56 PM
This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999
"The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer..."
Logs were posted on Attrition.org's website
http://www.attrition.org/postal/z/033/0871.html
They seem to be getting hammered due to slashdot picking up the story. Here's a mirror of the logs if they're still down.
http://suso.suso.org/attrition1.html - Page 1
http://suso.suso.org/attrition2.html - Page 2
For those that don't get the reason for asking for the picture of a squirrel, they were doing a variant of scambaiting (http://www.419eater.com/) to make the guy look like an idiot. :)
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999
"The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer..."
Logs were posted on Attrition.org's website
http://www.attrition.org/postal/z/033/0871.html
They seem to be getting hammered due to slashdot picking up the story. Here's a mirror of the logs if they're still down.
http://suso.suso.org/attrition1.html - Page 1
http://suso.suso.org/attrition2.html - Page 2
For those that don't get the reason for asking for the picture of a squirrel, they were doing a variant of scambaiting (http://www.419eater.com/) to make the guy look like an idiot. :)