How come fake companys can send out faxes and letters trying to get you to send money overseas?

Question

When the company is fraud and is trying to get you to send 2,000.00 to get 469,000.00. How come the police can't get those people?/ Also why do people fall for those ads?

Answer 1

police can't find them because they are fake!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Quite often, the police do get them. The problem is that most scammers are very clever people, and have set up dummy corporations or other methods to remove themselves from the trickery. On top of that, many of them are actually overseas, well out of the jurisdiction of local authorities, and the international authorities consider them small fires not worth the effort.

People fall for the scams because they are greedy.

Answer 3

Because those companies and people are overseas it's hard for the average American to know where to start with foreign police. I'm not even sure if it's against the law over there for them to do that. Why do people fall for it? I'm not sure about that either, perhaps it's just that some people are desperate for a get rich quick scheme.

Answer 4

Any that come to my address are sent by Gmail to the spam folder online and never downloaded with my e-mail. You get them from more than those sites too. If you have a thoughtful friend who forwards your e-mails to someone else without deleting your address, it can be harvested by spammers. Viruses harvest e-mail addresses from e-mail programs. Many other ways to get an e-mail address. You've done well. Don't forward from your main address and try to keep it out of "auto update" your contacts programs that your friends run. Congrats on clean mail.

Answer 5

1) Because they work primarily out of third world countries that have bigger problems then the fact that a couple of Americans got suckered in to sending money and Internationale police have no say over there
2) Because people force themselves to believe that if they don't answer to these faxes they're passing over a great opportunity and refuse to look at it objectively i guess the money blinds them