MGDPremium,MVM
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4 edits | reply to Doctor Olds
Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto said by Doctor Olds:I'd sure like to see indictments and arrests on the 2 Marietta based Mules (Mr. Benkowitz and Mr. Hoffman) that know they are not running a legitimate web enterprise. Would you report those two to the AJC.com so they can do a story on them from your evidence and get the local authorities involved? .
I need to update that segment, I did not want to post anything prior to certain events taking place. I did make subsequent contact with the parties and provided them with irrefutable evidence of the fraud, and the fact that they were conned into believing it was a legitimate operation.
I also emphazied at the time that while up to now they were a victim and an unwitting participant, however, once alerted and given specific details of the fraud, then to continue to go forward, could in the future jeopardize the claim of being an unwitting participant.
I can now tell you that the bank accounts have been frozen, and remote access to the accounts blocked. No additional funds will be wired to the drop in Kyrgyzstan. I also requested that all documents, including emails and other evidence be preserved.
It is worth reiterating that all the mules that I have been in contact with have no idea what they have been involved with. The con job is very professional, it even invloves completing and submitting a multiple page application. They also must provide copies of their identification, under the guise that they need a security background check. The data that mules end up seeing is very restricted, and intended that way.
The mules that I have located or identified range in age from their early twenties to seventies, and have various backgrounds. Recently many of them have been elderly, but they clearly were not net savvy enough to recognize the subtle signs of the fraud.
MGD
EDIT= There are dozens and dozens of active mules out there, located around the country. Probably way more than 100 all total over the past two years. There will be a cyber mule behind evey one of these websites generating the fraud charges. |
