On Thursday 04 July 2002 18:17, Oliver Ob wrote:
Keith Winston schrieb:
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:08:58AM -0400, zentara wrote:
Hi, I've been getting alot of those emails from Africa, you know the ones, open a bank account so we can transfer the billions looted from our country by my rich dead father who was murdered by revolutionaries. We only trust you.
Is there some government agency that collects these for fraud investigation. Who would I forward these to?
In the U.S., they would go to uce@ftc.gov. Outside the U.S. I don't know.
What sense should it make to fw a mail from Africa to US gov?
Hence the "outside the U.S. I don't know" comment. http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/fighters.htm is the 419 Coalition; they seem to be the largest single multi-country group opposing the scam. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-419.html is a German page; there are also English, US, Dutch, Spanish and various other pages. Hope this helps. Gideon. (And the fact that someone doesn't *know* the procedures outside their own country doesn't automatically make them a big imperialist running dog, OK?)