Where to report SPAM, scams, viruses, etc... (when it is illegal)
Hello list, This is more a procedural question than a direct security but relevant none the less: Where (for various countries) can you report spam, scams, dialers, viruses, or other computer crimes? Lately, the spam I have been receiving has been more and more offensive and illegal in it's offerings (many obious bank fraud scams, pirated software, etc...) and when left with only an unlisted phone number or domain it can be difficult to know where to send the information to have the proper action taken, especially if it's a foreign country. At the moment I report major problems (such as domains offering bank scams) to the ISPs in question and ignore most "normal" spam. Thanks, J. Theriault administrator@maginetworks.com
On May 17, 2004, at 8:44 AM, J. Theriault wrote:
This is more a procedural question than a direct security but relevant none the less:
Where (for various countries) can you report spam, scams, dialers, viruses, or other computer crimes?
Lately, the spam I have been receiving has been more and more offensive and illegal in it's offerings (many obious bank fraud scams, pirated software, etc...) and when left with only an unlisted phone number or domain it can be difficult to know where to send the information to have the proper action taken, especially if it's a foreign country.
If you're in the U.S., you can report any spam to the FTC: http://www.ftc.gov/spam/ They can try to build cases against fraudsters and take action, but if it's from overseas, there isn't a whole lot they can do. You can report such things to your state attorney general. Sometimes they also collect that information and build cases against the worst offenders. But again, when the email is coming from overseas, there isn't much they can do. Good Luck, Jeremy
The Monday 2004-05-17 at 17:44 +0200, J. Theriault wrote:
Lately, the spam I have been receiving has been more and more offensive and illegal in it's offerings (many obious bank fraud scams,
Usually I sent the most flagrant of those to an email of my country police, internet fraud or crime divission. But I suppose they were receiving so much spam that the closed it :-( I saw a note on my bank web page saying they were very interested in being notified about emails asking clientes their for account data, and they cited a phone, 24*7. I assume any bank mentioned in those scams should be interested in knowing. If what you receive is about the "nigerian spam", there was a link about it on the FBI page. It appears some people were killed: United States Secret Service: Advance Fee Fraud Advisory http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml If you are interested on the humor side, see: Conversations with a Nigerian Bank Scammer http://www.geocities.com/lapetitelesson/cs/conversation.html I suppose you will find more links there, or googling. I don't even know if they are still valid.
pirated software, etc...)
The agency protecting or handling software copyrights in your country, I assume.
and when left with only an unlisted phone number or domain it can be difficult to know where to send the information to have the proper action taken, especially if it's a foreign country.
I don't bother. Only if it affect a local institution (they use their name) I may inform them, forwarding the email to them. If they don't have an email, I do nothing.
At the moment I report major problems (such as domains offering bank scams) to the ISPs in question and ignore most "normal" spam.
The ISP... :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I installed SUSE enterprise server 8.1. But how can I get this information from a shell command? ben@linux:~> uname -a Linux linux 2.4.19-4GB #1 Mon Oct 21 18:45:41 UTC 2002 i686 unknown uname return information is not clear. Ben
I installed SUSE enterprise server 8.1. But how can I get this information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There is no such version. Probably you installdes SUSE Enterprise Server 8 (there are no subversions for the enterprise products, even if
Hi, Am 18.05.2004 um 03:23 schrieb goodman: the command returns a "VERSION 8.1")
from a shell command?
cat /etc/SuSE-release
ben@linux:~> uname -a Linux linux 2.4.19-4GB #1 Mon Oct 21 18:45:41 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This seems to be an outdated kernel. Please install all the updates!
uname return information is not clear.
uname only delivers kernel information, a distribution is much more ;) HTH, Ingo
Ben
Lately, the spam I have been receiving has been more and more offensive
and illegal in it's offerings (many obious bank fraud scams, pirated software, etc...) and when left with only an unlisted phone number or domain it can be difficult to know where to send the information to have the proper action taken, especially if it's a foreign country.
Probably not the right way to do it but the South African Police Service has a department dedicated to "419" scams or advance fee scam. US. http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml South Africa. http://www.saps.gov.za/faq/faq4.htm 419's are bank scams where an illustrius person you have never met asks you to "hold" some money for them for which you will get a nominal fee. After much proving who you are to them (sending them your bank details, identity documents, signature, letterheads) they ask to meet to give you the goods and you are by that time screwed as they have everything they need to clear you accounts fraudulently. See this site for a very good overview of how these scams work. http://www.419eater.com/html/ahmed_ibrahim.htm http://www.scamorama.com/crocs2.html
17-05-2004, 17:44, J. Theriault wrotes:
At the moment I report major problems (such as domains offering bank scams) to the ISPs in question and ignore most "normal" spam.
There is an interesting usenet group: news.admin.net-abuse.email you can search the posts via advanced google usenet search -- suse <suse@lesiak.hopto.org>
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