I've gotten a few e-mails from a lawyer(?) who needs someone to claim to be a relative of a dead person and he will do the legal work to claim the estate, then split it with me. I know this is a scam somehow, but can I report him to someone?
2006-10-20 16:21:29 · 11 answers · asked by beachlady325 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
If you are in the USA, you can report 'em here.
http://www.ic3.gov/
But quite frankly it will do little good as most of these internet scams originate from Nigeria, eastern Europe or China, where the inforcement of international laws regarding the internet is very lax.
Or the authorities in those places accept bribes to allow these scams to continue.
Good luck anyways ;-)
2006-10-20 16:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This program will track the spam mail and you can forward a report to all concerned. Trial version will work for ten days only.
Visualware Security Suite .
Quote Tip: Use your browser's Send Page by Email facility to send this email to info@genesysinformatica.it, which is the email address of the company/individual responsible for the abuser's network. (How do I do this?)
Note that you do not actually have to include the spam contents itself in the letter; the information below is sufficient for the ISP to identify the sender and take the necessary steps to prevent the problem from recurring.
The following individual on your network has sent me a Spam email. The full headers of the email are beloworted the same spam message effectively. The sender was traced to ITALY.
Unquote
i think you got the same message !
2006-10-20 16:59:24 · answer #2 · answered by essbebe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These scams usually come from countries with corrupt Governments and Law Enforcement. Countries like Nigeria(and other African counties), Romainia in southern Europe and others are very corrupt and do not act upon U.S. requests to stop the scammers. The Scammers make so much money, with these scams, they can afford to bribe the officials. At best these countries will arrest and imprision some innocent person to keep U.S. Foriegn Aid coming to their country.
These scam email that come from countries that will arrest the scammers are usually forwarded through hijacked computers in other countries. Many of these are forwarded through 8 - 10 different countries and ISP's before getting to you. This makes it very difficult for the FTC, FBI and other investigators to trace them. For each county where the ISP is located that country must trace it to the next country. Then that country must trace it and so on. It can take months to years to find and arrest these people.
You can forward the email(s) to the FTC. They do act on them, but, as I said it can take a long time to stop them. Forward them to this email address then delete them.
spam@uce.gov
2006-10-20 16:49:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The proposal you are describing is definitely fraud.
Your State Attorney General would probably be interested in receiving reports of scams & spams. The Attorney General in my State gave me this address to report such.:
spam@uce.gov
You forward the supicious e-mail to that address. Make sure if you are using Outlook Express that you turn off the option of adding the sender to your address book automatically on reply or forward.
2006-10-20 16:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The FCC would love to hear about him, contact the police in your area with the web address and all the header information as well as your local isp. That way you have quiet a few people keeping an eye on him.
Good Luck!
2006-10-20 16:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by ebay_convert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spam reports go to http://ftc.gov
And, spam reports go in Yahoo.com to the mail blocker, and the reporting center, when you hit the button that says spam.
I send scam reports to http://fcc.gov and to what ever ISP I am using.
In my case, maybe http://spoof@cfl.rr.com
Yours might be http://spoof@aol.com
Don't worry though, lots of folks get the same letter, mayber 2 million each day. others will report it, also.
2006-10-20 16:35:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The FBI, and Post Master.
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financial/fcs_report052005/fcs_report052005.htm
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:5_yo6kfEaa4J:www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usab4906.pdf+ost+master+wire+fraud&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Laws/US/criminal_laws.htm
2006-10-20 16:35:22 · answer #7 · answered by acklan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Copy and send to reportphishing@antiphishing.org Good luck. Pops
2006-10-20 16:52:01 · answer #8 · answered by Pops 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
download spam matters. follow what they say to do and then they tract his e-mails down and prosecute
2006-10-20 16:41:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.cybercrime.gov/
2006-10-20 16:30:09 · answer #10 · answered by Dheepak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋