…Out of curiosity, Jones began looking into various scams that arrived in his inbox. Being fairly adept at using Unix commands, he started to apply these to find out where certain web sites were located and was surprised at how much information could be uncovered using a few basic techniques. Anyone can do this, he says; you don’t need to work for the FBI or an ISP. “There was no single resource that described how to use these tools for forensics, but clearly a great deal of interest on the web about Internet fraud. So, I decided to organize these tools and techniques and present them to a wider audience in the form of the book…”
