Some one with a [Nigerian?] accent called, stating they're from the U.S. Treasury and that they are suing me and unless I get back to them, I could go to jail.
Now, the # is a pretend "BankOfAmer...":
Using email from: [email protected]
Asking me to call them. NOT!!!
(SMS Code: ISMFHM) Error Code: 120176 - Please call: +1(347)560-9908 As part of our policies, we issued this warning sms ale
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Thanks for the email address. I went to the website and it appears to be for a machine shop.
The site registration is owned by an advertising service, maybe whoever they contracted with to handle their website. The site was registered in 2008, which correlates with the rise in oil field fracking - lots of heavy metal parts needed for those rigs and the piping for delivery.
Their website may have been hacked; the criminal element figures the business will be shut down for the four days of the Fourth of July weekend, and that's the time they make heavy use of other peoples' business computers. I noticed some of the webpages don't work right.
I worked for a machine shop 1979-1981 while going to college, during the oil drilling boom of that time. The boom ended in 1983 when the Saudis decided to force the price of oil down to regain control of the market. Thirty years later, another oil-drilling boom ends for the same reason.