where do go to report the nigerian 419 scam?
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"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."\n\nThe United States Department Of The Treasury advises "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."
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They are commonly called 419 scam, named after the Nigerian penal code 419 where these type scams originated. With the advent of the internet, they are more widespread.\n\nTo read more and have some fun while doing it, please point your browser to:
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DONT REPLY.  these are new ways of frauds. there was also one email from a general in african country which was in circulation. Even i have got the mail which u have received
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Nigeria?   You can report it to the FBI.  This scam has been around a long time and reported thousands of times, so if you want to just delete it, that's OK too.
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I also receive such mail usually from overseas. You can call your local law enforcement and they will tell you where to report this. They are very familiar with this scam.
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Central Bank of Nigeria's e-mail address is actually info@cenbank.org\n\nTheir web site is http://www.cenbank.org/\n\nIf this is based on an e-mail and a promise of payment of a large sum of cash to help with a monetary transaction DO NOT BELIEVE IT. There are a ton of Nigerian scams on the Internet. Simply ignore it or better yet, report it to the authorities.
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Any cyber scam can be reported to:\nThe Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)\nhttp://www.ic3.gov/
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Have a look here: http://www.419eater.com/\n\nOr on a more serious note:\nhttp://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/\nhttp://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Nigerian/reporting.htm
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The proper authority to report them to is the local police where you live, but they probably won't act on your report because they are not familiar with online fraud. Other authorities that know how to handle such cases won't accept your report unless you lost $100,000 or more. It' a Catch-22 type of situation.\n\nInternational online fraud largely falls through the cracks. Most of the scams (even when they list phone numbers and addresses in the UK) are run from Nigeria. There are tens of thousands of active scammers there, far more than the police there can handle. The courts there are still processing cases from the 1990s.\n\nGiven the low chance of success in Nigeria, most law enforcemnt agencies will not even bother investigating any further once they know the crooks are in Nigeria. International investigations take a lot of time and effort, so law enforcment won't bother unless they have a reasonable chance of getting a conviction, which is uncertain in most online fraud which is a very anonymous type of crime. How do you proof guilt beyond reasonable doubt of a particular person if all you have is a prepaid mobile phone number and an IP address of an Internet cafe in Lagos/Nigeria?\n\nIf you want to make life difficult for the scammers, take up scambaiting. It's a fine hobby that wastes their time while providing lots of entertainment for you and it keeps the criminals away from real victims.\n\nLaw enforcement will not tackle international online fraud until there is the political will to make it a priority, which it currently isn't. The problem will only get bigger until then.
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The email is a Nigerian Scam called a 419. Reply to them and say that you have forwared their message to the US Secret Service and Interpol.  They will eventually try to take money from you by telling you that in order to access your prize you need to send them a couple thousand to unlock it or some crap like that...
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Report it to the internet carrier & the police
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It's called a Nigerian scam letter. Thousands of people every year lost hundreds of thousands of dollars getting sucked into these scams.
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Here you go:\nhttp://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm\nhttp://www.ftc.gov/reports/Fraud/finance.htm\nhttp://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/fall2002/spamreport.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)\nhttp://www.cybercrime.org.ng/forum/viewtopic.php?p=199&sid=cf230137e88c75b189d194411a4479f9\nhttp://www.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Fraud/Internet/\nhttp://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpeak/Nigerian/fake_fed-01.htm\nhttp://www.rahul.net/falk/\nhttp://www.the-eggman.com/writings/spam_hoaxes.html\nhttp://www.doofus.org/spam/\nhttp://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ANTI%20fraud%2C%20scam%2C%20spam%20sources
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You can take it to any bank and ask them to have their loss prevention department investigate. You can also report this person's e-mail to the FBI internet fraud department. You can find the link at www.fbi.gov.
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It is not real.  The same with all the scam e-mails from Nigeria!  Contact your national Communications Trade Agency.  They would provide information where to report this scam.
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nigerian 419 scam! been happeneing for years, in the late 70's early 80's people would get a fax asking for help, now we all get emails! what fun to report it as spam and get on with our lives!
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Common scam.\n\nWhen they get her bank info they will clean it out.\n\nIt's a take on the Nigrian scam which I have seen myself at least a dozen times.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp