ya know the e-mail kind where someone is saying that they need your infomation so that they can deposit money in your account and then you must Western Union it to them and you keep some. - Or the other typical one where you are told you won some lottery and they need your info. This e-mail is going around and it has a link to an actual site so that it will seem more believable...www.afbini.gov.uk...so many people are gonna get screwed....
2006-09-20 14:53:30 · 9 answers · asked by Bellina 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You can report it all you want but it will do little good.
The laws in Nigeria, China and eastern Europe are not very strong, and that is where most of the garbage comes from.
2006-09-20 15:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can report such phishing scam e-mails to spam@uce.gov . When you forward the spam, it is *vital* that you include the full headers of the e-mail. The headers show the route the e-mail took to get to you, and authorities need that info to collect data on the scammers. There is great information at the below link. Hope that helps! :)
2006-09-20 21:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by KB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reporting it isn't enough. That happened to us a couple of times and it did no good to report to the provider. The roomate site never responded to our e-mails and neither did Yahoo. Just thought you should know.
2006-09-20 21:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Blake & Deana B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You usually report it to abuse at your own ISP. For example if you use AOL you would forward the email to "abuse@AOL.com" Just put the word "SCAM?" in the subject line so they will know what to expect.
2006-09-20 21:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Report it to your internet service provider.
2006-09-20 21:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can report scam through your email provider, but you can't really let everyone know it's scam. Let people decide for themselves. :)
2006-09-20 21:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Check the FCC website. There is information on where to forward spoof emails.
Really though, no one cares.
2006-09-20 21:56:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
look it up on ripoffreport.com they have a huge list of scams..this is on that website, I bet you can find what you are looking for.
2006-09-20 21:55:30 · answer #8 · answered by hahaha 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoever is your email provider will have help on this---click on help and type in scam then follow the directions. Thanks.
2006-09-20 21:57:22 · answer #9 · answered by daisy2green 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋