Australia • Canada • Expatriates • S. Africa • U.K. • U.S.
REPORTING A NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER
1. No Financial Loss:
Please Forward a copy of the emails with Full Headers and fake documents to Joe Wein: joewein@pobox.com. You can learn more about Joe here: www.joewein.de, www.joewein.net.
Joe's program lifts information from the emails and their headers; this information is added to his database and correlated. Sometimes this information is useful to law enforcement.
Identity Theft is a major element of these crimes. Please go to the following page and follow all the instructions that apply to you: http://www.fraudaid.com/ID_theft.htm
If you are being threatened by the scammers, please go here: http://www.fraudaid.com/threats.htm
2. Financial Loss:
If you are a United States Citizen or Resident, and have suffered a financial loss:
> Don't worry, you are not in any trouble.
> Please complete your narrative for the Secret Service following these instructions: How To Write and Effective Fraud Report.
> Contact your local Secret Service Field Office and ask for an Agent who is familiar with Nigerian / Romanian-style frauds, or ask for the International Crimes Department. You will find your local Secret Service Field Office here: http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/field_offices.shtml
> Identity Theft is a major element of these crimes. Please go to the following page and follow all the instructions that apply to you: http://www.fraudaid.com/ID_theft.htm
> If you are being threatened by the scammers, please go here: http://www.fraudaid.com/threats.htm
3. Financial Loss:
If you are NOT a United States Citizen or Resident and have suffered a financial loss, please contact your local national law enforcement agency to see if they can help you.
If you can properly track the emails sent to you by the scammers and have viable evidence (land line phone numbers, email tracking evidence, bank account numbers) and are absolutely positive the scammers are currently located in the country of Nigeria, you may be able to address your complaint to the EFCC (the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission). It is best to do this through your country's embassy in Nigeria.
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