Another ShadowCrew Prank Email

Summary:
Email claims to be a transaction confirmation message from ShadowCrew.com for three months access to child pornography (Full commentary below.)



Status:
Probably another pointless prank

Example:(Submitted via email, 2004)


Commentary:
It appears that the Shadow Crew website is yet again the target of pranksters. The latest prank email claims to be a transaction confirmation message for three months access to child pornography. Another child porn email supposedly from Shadowcrew was circulating earlier in the year. These emails are quite similar to a prank email that targeted DarkProfits.com.

At face value the email might seem to be a crude phisher scam in that it requests recipients to send credit card information. Some phisher scammers send emails that detail a fictitious credit card charge and provide a link where recipients can supposedly cancel the transaction. The link leads to a bogus website that requests personal information from the user. However, in this case, a simple email address is provided rather than a link, and different email addresses are used in different instances of the prank email. The email addresses point to customer service webpages belonging to AT&T and I can see no obvious connection to the ShadowCrew website.

While it would certainly be very unwise to send sensitive financial information via email, history suggests that this particular email is more likely to be a hoax than a serious phisher scam. Another prank email was directed at the ShadowCrew site earlier in the year. This email also looked like a phisher scam but was in fact a prank designed to discredit Shadowcrew.com.

An example of an earlier prank:

Write-up by Brett M.Christensen