I am getting false claims of winnings and death inheiretances asking for my identity documents, what do I do?

Question

I received last month claiming lottery, now claiming death inherience, asking for my i.d's and such; how do I go about reporting this for them trying to identity theft and whatever ekse they may be trying to do, it is all from email with address ended in uk

Answer 1

If you are getting them on emails, ignore them. If it's yahoo, hotmail, or gmail, etc that has a "report as spam" button click it. If you respond or click on the links in the emails you are telling the sender your email address is valid and they will get worse.

Unless they have your specific information on them, full name, address, etc. then the sender is fishing and doesn't know who you are.

If you are interested I have an email from a guy in the Middle East who has 50 million dollars at his bank from an Iraqi General who wants to park it in my bank account for a while. :)

Answer 2

Spam, unfortunately, is a normal part of online life now. In the U.S. you can report SPAM to the FTC, but considering that most of the phishing scams you are describing comes for other countries there is really little point.

Right now, there is no truly effective way to prevent yourself from receiving these scam solicitations once your e-mail address can be found on the internet or can be guesses if you use a free e-mail service. Just keep your SPAM blocker updated and be intelligent about reading your e-mail. No one wants to give you a million dollars.

Answer 3

What you do is block those senders from sending you stuff. One sure clue is the way in which these (nigerian or russian sometimes) spammers speak, their grammar is off, and spelling is atrocious. Take one of the letters and put it through a spell checker, if you find more than 2 mistakes its spam. Also use your right click on your mouse more than you are used to maybe. Play around with your right click. Right click everything, its fun and you find lots of cool stuff that way. I right click e-mail to block a sender. I right click the a: drive to format my floppy. also if you use aol, i like the feature where you put in certain terms to block like inheritance or lottery, and so any email containg those words in the body of the message gets sent directly to the toilet. But don't fall prey to their scams. I know we all want to believe, its us we must convince ourselves, because I know a guy who wanted to believe that is was true so badly i mean he really wanted it to be true at the cost of $4000, he wanted it to be true, but in the end his beliefs were strong and zapped him of cash. These monsters feed on humans natural yearning for these type of things, so be careful, and good luck.

Answer 4

It is annoying, but some people still fall for them. They do mass emailings. If one person out of 1000 falls for it, it is worth their time. There are a couple of sites online that attempt to scam the spammers.
419eater.com
419baiter.com
I reply sometimes and give them this link:
http://www.personaldetails.freeserve.co.uk.

Answer 5

yeah just dont give any info babe i even get phone calls so no swett sweets luv ya by ive seen the scammers live via tv and the news team played there prank so they cried in fear of being locked up so i dont know why people can be so dumb and fall for this shittsie

Answer 6

Just turn everything over to the police. Eventually these clowns will get caught. Until then laugh at them for wasting the postage.

Answer 7

It's best just to delete them. It'll never stop. If you give your info to certain companies they sell it to these types of scammers.

Answer 8

is it real mail or e-mail? If real mail I would take it to the U.S. Postal Inspector; if e-mail, go here:

www.internetfraud.usdoj.gov OR

www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm

Answer 9

They're virtually untraceable, so just ignore them. They're all just a scam, so throw them away.

Answer 10

Ignor them and delete. They have been proven fraud. Delete them as soon as you get them.