
and/or bank account information. BoatingCT.com had not sent these
e-mail messages to their customers. The company contacted the FBI New
Haven field office for investigative assistance, and at the FBI’s request, it
provided a copy of several e-mails received by its customers, along with
its Web server logs. Figure 6-1 shows the text of an e-mail message
received by a customer. Figure 6-2 shows the e-mail header information.
FBI Analysis
The e-mail header information shown in Figure 6-2 provided some impor-
tant information (see Appendix A). Although the message appeared to be
sent from orders@boatingct.com—the victim company’s legitimate e-mail
FBI Analysis ...