Idiot wannabe spy tries to advertise his services unsolicited; is caught

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

No, really.

http://www.itworld.com/legal/123209/would-be-akamai-spy-busted-feds

Would-be Akamai spy busted by feds
The finance department employee sought out a foreign government and offered confidential information

^{October 6, 2010, 07:30 PM
IDG News Service}

An Akamai Technologies staffer was arrested Wednesday and charged with wire fraud after he provided confidential business information to an undercover federal agent that he believed to be working for an unnamed foreign government.

Elliot Doxer was charged in federal court here Wednesday in a case that began in June 2006, when the 42-year-old employee in the finance department of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Internet content delivery company sent an e-mail to the consulate of a country referred to only as "country X" in the criminal complaint. In that e-mail, he expressed his desire to help that country with whatever information he could obtain in his position, which he acknowledged was limited to "invoicing and customer contact information."

The charge of wire fraud is based on the allegations that Doxer made his offer via e-mail, and engaged in a scheme to defraud his employer of confidential and proprietary information for which he later allegedly solicited payment.

The foreign consulate that Doxer contacted turned his e-mail over to law enforcement authorities, and a little over a year later, he was contacted by an FBI agent posing as a representative of "country X." Over the next 18 months, Doxer left confidential business information such as customer lists and contracts at a designated spot called a dead drop, acts captured via video surveillance. (more at link)

What do you think Country X is? I'm thinking China. Or maybe Israel.

[Enrique]

1. Israel

we had no problem identifying Venezuela in a similar case.

[Ian David]

2. Well, whatever country it was cooperated with us. n/t