It’s too much fun playing super-spy when all charges that the election of Trump is the worst thing that ever happened to America is a No-Sell.

“Alfa wants U.S. authorities to help unmask a computer inside the United States that it believes has been used to launch cyberattacks spoofing the appearance of a backdoor communication channel between Moscow and America’s 45th president, according to a source directly familiar with the bank’s request. (Circa, March, 16, 2017-)

“The bank believes “these malicious attacks are designed to create the false impression that Alfa Bank has a secretive relationship with the Trump Organization,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“Alfa Bank has insisted since media stories began appearing last fall about the computer communications—known as Domain Name Server lookups—that it has never had a relationship to Trump or any of his companies and that any computer connections between the two parties’ computers were innocuous. The resumption of the computer pings started last month, and Alfa’s cybersecurity experts traced evidence that the activity was actually being spoofed—or hacked—through a third party from a masked computer address inside the United States, the source said.”

Like a return address

“The attacks attempted to trigger verification signals between Alfa Bank and a server associated with the Trump Organization, the source said.

“The source said the spoofing attempt is equivalent to someone in the U.S. sending an empty envelope to the Trump Towers but putting on the envelope a return address in Russia, causing the Trump server to falsely return the communication back to Moscow.

“The source cautioned it does not yet have evidence that the same activity occurred between last May through September, causing the generation of the first server pings that computer scientists reported last fall might be evidence of secret communications between Trump and Russia.”