Threatening Your Life Scam.

[Raoul Koning]

This story was published in the Racine Journal Times - Racine, Wisconsin. and is worthy of posting here at Scams.net:

RACINE - Police were called to the home of a Racine man who received a threatening e-mail.

According to reports, the e-mail was sent to the man on Friday at 5:13 a.m. with the subject: MR. SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND WANTS YOU DEAD.

Police said the sender said he had been given 10 days to kill the Racine man. The e-mail said the sender had been paid, but would instead send the man a tape of the person who wants him killed in exchange for $8,000. The message also warned the Racine man not to contact police.

Reports said the message was traced through the man’s Internet provider to an island in the Indian Ocean.