On Thursday 04 July 2002 03:04 pm, mike wrote:
It is probably a good idea to keep the US govt. out of it. They are grasping at any excuse to attenuate our freedoms, especially in the on-line arena. Education is the best tool in this case. Tell your friends, put up a web page, but don't involve George W. Dictator and his secret police!
On Thursday 04 July 2002 15:47, Gideon Hallett wrote:
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?
I don't like Dubya any more than you do, but the folks looking into these scams are at the Secret Service and, I'm pretty sure, quite apolitical. They're after sleazy Nigerians, not us -- and if you doubt the sleaze part, just look at those emails. You should forward any Nigerian scammails to: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov They're building a database that hopefully will help track down some of those con men and put them in jail. Sympathy for rebels, nonconformists, and such is one thing; sympathy for scam artists quite another. Paul