How do you report scam emails that try to trick someone in to sending bank info.?

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From: "Williams Kamara" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: From:Williams Kamara,
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:25:57 +0200

From:Williams Kamara,
Abidjan Ivory Coast,
Cote D'Ivoire,
West Africa.

Dearest One ,

With due respect and humility I write you this letter which I believe
you
would be of great assistance to me and my sister .

Please I am Williams Kamara, the only son of late chief Joseph Kamara
from
Sierra Leone.My sources of your contact gave me the courage and
confidence
to rely on you.I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to
seek
your assistance to transfer our cash of Fourteen million,Five hundred
thousand dollars ( $14,500,000 ) now in the custody of a Bank here in
Abidjan to your private account pending our arrival to your country.

SOURCE OF THE MONEY

My late father, chief Joseph Kamara , a native of mende district in the
Northern province of Sierra Leone, was the general Manager of Sierra
Leone
mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to my father.This
money
was the income accrued from mining co operation's over draft and minor
sales.

Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of major
Paul
Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that
almost
destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the
Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father
had
already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister
and
myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our personal
effects
and the box containing team. My father deposited the fund for the safe
custody until after the war when he will join us.

During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting
of
public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone
mining coop. Was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father
including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed
by the
rebels in November 1999 because of his relationship with the civilian
Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father death, and
with
the news of my uncles involvement in air crash in January, dashed our
hope
of survival.

The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related
complications of which she later died in the hospital After we must
have
spent a lot of money on her. Now my 16-year-old sister and myself are
alone
in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any
relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in
fund
our father deposited in the bank To this effect,

I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.To assist me
claim
this fund from the bank as co-beneficiary.

To transfer this money in your name to your country.

To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our
behalf in
your country and you, thecaretaker.

To secure a college for my little sister and my self in your country to
further our education. And to make arrangement for our travel with you
to
your country after you have transferred this fund.

For your assistance, I beg to concede 20 % of this money to you for
your
efforts assistance .

Best regards
Williams and Roselinda Kamara.

Answer 1

First report this to the BANK, second report this to your ISP. Lastly I would also report the solitation to the Legal system of the country that your in. Maybed no one will do anything but you should feel better about not letting them scam you.

Answer 2

I've gotten several of the African e-mails and I delete them after I send very profane replies. I'm not really sure you can do much about them. I suppose you could contact your local police department and talk to someone in Fraud. See what they have to say.

Answer 3

Don't bother. The internet is so clogged with this material, it is best to just ignore it, delete it and get a better junk mail filter.

Answer 4

If you use Yahoo! Mail just hit the Spam button and it is automatically reported to Yahoo! and added to your blocked list and deleted.

Answer 5

Each e-mail provider or ISP has a different place to report this. I'd look at your provider's website and see what they say.

If you want to report it to the government, try this site: http://www.ic3.gov/

Answer 6

There are so many of these scams I doubt you'll find anyone that cares.

Simply DO NOT RESPOND and DO NOT SEND MONEY. And perhaps, warn your friends.

Good luck!

Answer 7

Just click delete..poof they are gone.