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Where do you go to report Internet scams?

July 6th, 2010

I am getting emails all the time saying a relative died and left me millions. I guess I had super rich people in my family and I never knew it….maybe the money is cursed! Anyways, they are asking for bank account numbers and other personal information. I am not stupid enough to give it to them. However, I know some people are.


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4 Responses to “Where do you go to report Internet scams?”

  1. Comment by Mark P.
    July 6th, 2010

    Hope this might help.

    The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about the Nigerian scam. It says:

    "If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria — or any other country, for that matter — forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov."

    The United States Department of the Treasury maintains an account for the public to send 419 related documents:

    "You may also email the 419er documents, especially any banking data they may have given you, marked as described above, to Task Force Main in DC 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov; that is also acceptable."

  2. Comment by Zeta
    July 6th, 2010

    Fact, you will get end less of scam e-mails. You can either spend 24-7 reporting them or just delete them. They just keep coming back with other e-mail account and mass e-mail out to us. We can only wait for federal government to take actions upon. Usually government waits till someone get cheated out of thousands of dollar or people died from it.

  3. Comment by Rusty Jones
    July 6th, 2010

    Call your internet provider’s 800 # and ask for Tech support.
    They can help, its thier job.

  4. Comment by Toni M.
    July 6th, 2010

    You could check this locations:

    http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm
    http://www.ic3.gov/
    https://complaint.ic3.gov/Default.aspx
    http://www.contracophishing.com/?page=report

    http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.html
    https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi

    Answer to similar question on Yahoo:
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060705203807AAKp5jo
    http://joewein.de/sw/419scam.htm

    I hope that this will help you, and this will help to a lot of other people on the net.

    Have a nice day,
    Toni M.