To whom do I report email scams? Is there any agency that is interested in stopping this crap?
By Ripoffs Scams, on September 9th, 2010
I keep getting swamped with emails from out of the country offering to pay for the items I am selling with cashier checks in very high amounts for the item I am selling and wanting me to cash the check and take out my money and send them the balance. This is a scam to launder money and I want no parts of it. I am also receiving emails telling me that I won millions of dollars and this crap is a real nuisance to say the least. Let me know.
It’s called the spam button – few other choices.
Do not answer – some a phishing sites.
You can look up scams international on Google. I don’t have access to my email right now, but I send them all that I get. I have been doing it for at least 2 years. I think it is: http://scamsinternational.com
If you can look at the header, and determine if it is the US or foreign, it will determine where you should send it too. “What is my IP address” lets you copy and paste the header into their form and it will tell you where the email originated from.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/
I use Spam Cop too. It tells you if they are listed as known spam. You type in the IP address of the spammer, and it will tell you where the email originated to. You can send it to the place they recommend.
http://spamcop.net
I use them all instead of deleting them, just because I’d like them caught and it usually only takes a minute or two to do it. With well known banks, I also go to their website security and send them a copy. They usually show copies of ones they already know about.
Just don’t answer them, many have viruses attached to them. You could get a virus if you click on any of their spots within the letter. Those take you to fake websites where they can hijack your computer. From everything I’ve read, they are from African nations, Nigeria mainly. People just sit in a kiosk and send out thousands of them daily. They must get some people to bite, otherwise they wouldn’t keep doing it. They are really infuriating. I did find a few that look like Nigerian letters, but they coming out of California.
Let’s stomp them out!
Federal Trade Commission.
But they get so many complaints, they usually don’t bother with individual e-mails. There are something like 10 billion spam messages sent out per day. They go after the worst offenders.