Spam

[Owen Lewis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Roland Perry
> Sent: 09 October 2002 11:06
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Spam
>
>
> In message <FMEFLOMOCGIMKOKKKLFIAEPFCFAA.oml@sysrx.uk.com>, Owen Lewis
> <oml@sysrx.uk.com> writes
> >Moreover, at one per week, it is small enough to
> >avoid any risk of serious police investigation.
>
> There are a great deal more than one a week. I get at least one a day!
>
> Both NCIS and the Met have units which work on this problem:

'Work' means different things to different people.

Count the number of years that these scams have been running, multiply by
some factor of 365+ (your own assessment of their rate of occurrence). And
the number of prosecutions has been?? (No need to worry about *successful*
prosecutions).

Some years ago, I was involved in the investigation of a scam of a different
sort. The Met advice to our client was, put simply, that they could take
down details if required but were most unlikely to mount an investigation
since the client's proven losses were less than UKP 1 M per year and,
therefore they should look to private sources to do something about it for
them.

Coincidentally or not, I understand that the financial threshold for an FBI
investigation was USD 1M about 10 years ago.

I also believe that matters have not improved and that, these days, the
police are 'too busy' even to deal with burglars and shop thieves caught in
the act.

>
> eg: http://www.ncis.co.uk/PRESS/24_01.asp
>     http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm

Yes, I was aware of the press release. Does that count as 'work'?

Owen