Momey laundering scams

[Adrian Midgley]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 08:49, you wrote:

> in fact (and Roland was at the same meeting yesterday) the "line" on
> this has now changed...    the previous advice to visit your local desk
> sergeant, have the local fraud squad check it isn't a local crime and
> then have a photocopy sent off to NCIS is now seen to be inadequate.
>
> Instead, the Met accept that since they're receiving email from all ove=
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> the country, they might as well admit this and drop the "pretence" that
> it's for Londoners only...

So just for the record, not weird, and very sensible for the Met to accep=
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that non-geographical crime is best handled by a central acceptance point=
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They'll be getting some code written I guess and I suppose something a bi=
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like Spam Assassin or the real time black hole stuff might be usable to p=
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up in real time each new splurge, identify rapidly where the response con=
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details actually are, and for at least some of them generate some activit=
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around them in the real world.


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