Not strictly on topic...

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 18:51 11-12-2001 +0000, Richard Clayton wrote:

>In article <C0E676ADF313D511831700D009F1967D1B62@pc3-swin4-0-cust122.bri
>..cable.ntl.com>, David_Biggins@usermgmt.com writes
>
>>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).

I send mine to the Law Society, who send them on to some arm of the police
(possibly the Met) who haven't presumably told them not to bother.

Regards

Nicholas

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