Not strictly on topic...

[David_Biggins@usermgmt.com]

Thanks Richard, and also those who replied off-thread.

## dave ##


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> From: Richard Clayton [mailto:richard@highwayman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 18:52
> To: UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Not strictly on topic...
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> .cable.ntl.com>, David_Biggins@usermgmt.com writes
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> >I'm sure that someone here a while back posted an email 
> address or site
> >where suspected financial scam emails could be reported,  but I can't
> >find it.
> >
> >Can anyone enlighten me?
> 
> I think you're remembering Simon Watkin (from the Home Office) giving
> the address of   419@spring39.demon.co.uk  as being a 
> suitable place to
> report "Nigerian 419" scams to [though these days, they seem to have
> spread out from Nigeria somewhat - so maybe "Advance Fee Fraud" is the
> better name after all].
> 
> What Simon (and others) may not know is that the NCIS West African
> Organised Crime Section (WAOCS) who live behind the spring39 
> address are
> no longer interested in collating info.
> 
> They used to respond with a Word document (!) that said:
> 
> >Thank you for forwarding the advance fee fraud e-mails 
> (otherwise known
> >as Nigerian or 419 letters) to our department. We use them for
> >analytical and statistical purposes and to establish which 
> areas of the
> >population are currently being targeted.
> 
> and now respond (in MIME multipart/alternative HTML & ASCII - which is
> probably an advance)
> 
> >These emails are very common, and it is possible that you may receive
> >another at some future point. Please do not send it direct 
> to NCIS, but
> >transmit it direct to your local fraud squad, who will action it as
> >appropriate.
> 
> So your local fraud squad are apparently the place to go.... and I'm
> sure they'll be ever so happy to receive your report :-)
> 
> Please let us know how it goes -- it might make the HO even 
> more keen to
> create an online reporting system (cos it's more efficient to discard
> such things centrally than in 60 odd different places).
> 
> BTW: it's usually worth reporting the drop address back to the ISP who
> hosts it (usually yahoo.com in my recent experience). Slows 
> the senders
> down just a tad :)
> 
> - -- 
> richard                                              Richard Clayton
> 
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin
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