Recently, I repeatly receive e-mails from someone claiming to be government official from outside of USA that I can inherit millions of dollars from someone with the same last name like mine,who had passed away leaving millions $$$ of unclaimed
cash.Definitely this is a scam.Let's get these bad guys!
2007-03-21 19:55:07 · 6 answers · asked by pdu91214 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
YES, it IS a scam. there are thousands of different e-mail scams going on right now. i win millions on the British lottery every day and there is always some attorney or member of a royal family wanting to transfer mega bucks into my account. this is not to mention the scams being run with official looking headers stolen from pay-pal, Microsoft, coca cola, local banks, and the list goes on forever. there is an agency that is trying to work with Interpol and local law enforcement to track the scam artists.its the site where i forward all of my scam letters to (sometimes 15-20 per day) remember....if someone you don't know claims you have won a lot of money or they need your personal information to straighten out a problem with fraudulent use of your account, etc, its a scam...hope this helps...site is listed below.
2007-03-22 02:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a big problem on the internet. to trace a e-mail takes time and resources, from all the ISP's the e-mail goes thru. And spammers tend to hide their point of orgin by using proxies and bots.
You tell your ISP of the e-mail - they put a trace on the source. The ISP that sent it does the same by looking in the e-mail headers. So they need an active e-mail to look at. This has to be done all the way back to the source ISP who hosts the sender. IF however the spanner is using BOTS, they sender may be some person who left their PC open to attack and does not even know it is being used by the spammers.
Spyware, adware and other software can act as agents for spammers. Most ISP's do not have the resources to track all the spammers.
Still I would like to see something done, any idea for the best approch?
2007-03-21 20:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Report it as spam and delete it.
Tracking and finding those people out of the Country is very hard, and even if you knew exactly who/where they are you wouldn't be able to have them prosecuted.
2007-03-22 01:43:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...if you have a soft ware program to trace back their IP number address... then get the e-mail address of the local FBI office... send it off to then to their economic crimes div. The will pick it up... I get about 5 of those a week and I love it, I have some fun with them... having them send me documents to P.O. box's and making up bank account numbers... makes them nuts... gives me some play time.
Be careful... dont give them anything real and make sure you clean your browser when done playing....
2007-03-21 20:15:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tracking these folks is easy. Its the internet service providers that charge them huge amounts of money for access; then deny their existance when a complaint arises!
2007-03-21 20:09:16 · answer #5 · answered by Willis C 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They will be revealed and rot. Report them as spam to any monitoring services you use...delete the pap.
2007-03-21 22:21:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋