Does every e-mail coming out of the UK begin and end with scam/hoax. Seems to me if this is not true?

Question

that the good people of the UK would rise up and say enough of the scam artists that are representing our country via the Internet. Any takers?

God's Speed and Grace,
NME

Answer 1

I forward my junk mail to http://www.knujon.com/ which has put thousands of scammers out of business.

I suggest you figure out how to help put scammers out of business. Most people just complain. A few do something about it.

http://www.knujon.com/ is an easy and effective way to fight them. This place combines junk from multiple people, contacts the relevant Internet police such as
* stock scams are reported to the enforcement arm of the stock exchange
* phishing is reported to the treasury dept secret service which protects our real currency and our e-currency
* various other reported to FBI, various industry groups fighting different kinds of crimes

Now, I can see the headers on e-mail that I get.

So I get an e-mail claiming to be from some bank employee in the UK, who has found that someone died and left millions of pounds unclaimed, and instead of going to the authorities, this person wants my help to smuggle the money out of the country.

However, the e-mail is really coming to me from Russia, or China, or India, or the USA.

Same thing with alleged crooks wanting my help to launder money from just about anywhere. Usually there is no correlation between the nation where the money launderer claims to be from, and where the e-mail is really coming from. This is one tip off that it is a scam.

But even if it was not a scam, it is obvious they are crooks. Our civic duty is to help report them to the appropriate government agency.

I recently watched a hearing on C-Span with representatives of the FTC and other anti-consumer-crime specialists. They estimated that 80% of e-mail traffic is spam.

Obviously we need to do a better job of letting people know about services like http://www.knujon.com/

Answer 2

Actually most of the world's spam and scams comes from Boca Raton, Florida, and Russia. I'm not aware of large scale UK scamming. Probably the headers are forged to make it look like UK addresses.

Answer 3

Hmmm I'd be more inclined to suggest that our ISP's aren't doing enough about scams and hoaxes!

Answer 4

i am not sure, i normally have to have to find my way through far to much american junkmail to notice the britsh mail.

Answer 5

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