How the FBI conned a web con artist

[xBopx]

Hope this isn't a repost:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/872734.asp

Feb. 14 ? Brian Tinney apparently tried to pull an Internet scam on the wrong guys. Using the alias David Gilespe, Tinney allegedly contacted two small Massachusetts firms in January looking to buy half a million dollars worth of Cisco hardware. But there was a catch. The businesses? owners, Mike Kozlowski and Dana Andrews, said that Gilespe insisted on using an Internet escrow company that neither had heard of. A few days later, after Kozlowski read an MSNBC.com story on fake escrow scams, he contacted the FBI and Tinney was arrested in a sting operation.

 

[Orsorum]

Cool.

 

[dahunan]

Thank you for the information

 

[xBopx]

Originally posted by: dahunan
Thank you for the information

You are welcome.

 

[nta]

hehehe, i wonder why they don't dedicate more effort to catch these idiotic criminals.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

A good read. Be sure to click the link and read the whole thing.

 

[tk149]

<Simpson's Nelson> HA HA! <Simpson's Nelson>

 

[Zim Hosein]

HE WAS ECSTATIC
?He was ecstatic,? when he arrived, the agent told Kozlowski. ?They let him load the boxes into the car. Then the agent said, ?I think I have one more box here, behind the counter.? And then they jumped him.?

Haha

 

[her209]

If only we could setup some stings in the FS/FT forum.

 

[CallTheFBI]

See what happens when you call the FBI?