We recieved an email for a "winning" 2nd place UK online lottery. We would like to report this email to the proper law enforcement agencies in the USA and the UK so they can arrest the people who are doing this fraud. Its just a ploy to get banking details so they can rob people. We need real email or snail mail addys to forward/send this email to for investigation and prosecution. We need to help stop this kind of fraud before some innocent, pc illiterate person falls for the scam and loses all their life savings unknowingly.
2006-07-23 01:27:53 · 6 answers · asked by brucemariek 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
For the UK send the entire email to fraud.alert@.police.uk ,thats where ive sent all mine ,thankfully i am not gullible but there are alot of people out there who are and are being taken for huge amounts of money,it is becoming a daily occurance receiving these emails ,i dont have a problem with yahoo or my other main email address but my hotmail is bombarded on a daily basis ,its now beyond a joke
2006-07-24 04:07:11 · answer #1 · answered by okayalder62 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are thousands of these things and no matter what you do they will continue. There is nothing that can be done that will stop ignorant, greedy people from handing over their money to these crooks. In most cases law enforcement agencies will not want anthing to do with a possible scam operation based in a foreign country.
The best you can do is what I do, play along with them and give them fake information to tie them up for a time. If everybody did that it would bog them down somewhat. The police are not going to be interested at all. If people want to voluntarily had over their money to a crook that's their business, and if they cash a fake money order for a crook and send cash to the crook and keep part of it for themselves like the crook says to do, that makes the victim an accessory to the crime as well as a victim.
2006-07-23 01:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do not check a company before entering into a transaction, you could lose your money, time and credibility. Some widely used resources are the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) and the national fraud center (www.fraud.org) these days, you can easily find out more about a company using the internet in a few minutes. From a company's website, you can details about its ownership, how old the company really is and feedback from the company's customers.
You can find more detailed information about a company at http://tinyurl.com/gtb89
2006-07-23 20:05:15 · answer #3 · answered by comptermind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your national law enforcement agency is MI5, right? search on that with whatever search engine you have, and you should find the addy.
2006-07-23 01:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the bottom of the email and click the link that says "full headers" then forward it to abuse@yahoo.com
2006-07-23 01:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by leathersammie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that in the States it's the Secret Service that you should contact. Try this link:
http://www.secretservice.gov/financial_crimes.shtml
2006-07-23 01:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋