From: Pat

As discussed at our meeting
here are the tiips that may be useful. Report the fraud to help end it! Thanks


RECENT SCAMS e-mailed, recently received follow - as have been forwarded to the RCMP Phone buster site and EACH server's abuse systems. Bloody nuisance and time consuming activity, as well as possible economic blunder for unsuspecting people. Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers. Cut and paste, should this occur - see tips at end.


The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police of Canada) have a site with educational info

The Phonebusters National Call Centre (PNCC) is a joint partnership involving the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We were established in 1993 to combat Telemarketing Fraud and have grown to include Advance Fee letter fraud (Nigerian Letter Fraud) and Identity Theft. The PNCC is very interested in receiving copies of any 'new' versions of Nigerian letter schemes particularly those involving Canadian mailing addresses or telephone numbers. This valuable intelligence information is used to assist in the strategic initiatives targeting potential fraudsters. Pornography and children is a separate unit.

The Advance Fee letter you have received is not uncommon. Phone busters receives approximately 250 complaints per day from businesses and homeowners across North America of a similar nature. For further information pertaining to advance fee letter schemes please refer to the websites or our phone number listed below. LEARN MORE

http://phonebusters.c...

http://www.rcmp-grc.g...

http://home.rica.net/...

http://www.crimes-of-...

According to fraud specialists this particular scam targets middle class, middle age, business, and professional men and women who would never be easily deceived by a scam. It is estimated that over $1 million is lost in the U.S.A alone every day in Nigerian Advance Fee operations. The multi-stage fraud starts when you receive a fax, e-mail or letter. Phone calls are recent approaches.

The people behind these crimes are not only in Africa, but are located all over the world and they will send emails, faxes, and letters to anyone. Once you respond to the letter, your email, fax, or address, can be sold. When you respond to the letter, you have confirmed that you have a working address, or phone number. A second generic letter will then be sent requesting other personal information such as: banking information, passport numbers, driver's license, birth certificate, S.I.N., or other personal information. The key to preventing this operation from succeeding is not to respond to unsolicited emails, faxes, or letters.

If you have further questions regarding this matter please feel free to contact

1-888-495-8501 or Nigerian Letter Fraud REPORT to:wafl@phonebusters.com

If you receive anything OTHER than Nigerian Fraud . . . inherit millions; business deals; agent for $ . . .
please email the information to info@phonebusters.com

Thank-you


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HOAX - URBAN LEGENDS
Thought you might find the hoax list and virus alert useful. I do NOT need any "$instant money"; chain prayers or clever poems, letters or other stuff THANKS. Ask me first if the Yahoo or other site joke is wanted - it seems to get me on other unwanted lists, emails and scams plus the advertisements for instant college degrees.
'm sorry to inform you that the message that you have forwarded, forwarded to me, with everyone else's e-mail addresses, is a complete hoax. Please refer to the Urban Legends website below:

www.snopes.com


Another Link: http://www.trendmicro...
What should one do with this information? It would be helpful to all your friends and contacts if you turned around and immediately sent this corrective message to all the addressees in your message and to the person who sent you the message. GIVE them the HOAX web site.


Secondly, BEFORE sending ANY message that suggests that you "send this message to everyone in your email address book", CHECK IT OUT - facts on the story on the urban legends site at http://www.snopes.com....

All I did was go to this site and insert "The topic" into the search box and up came the true story.


Most such "send to everyone" messages are in fact hoaxes.

REPORT ABUSE, SPAM and Fraud Attempts

Internet Abuse Representative National Services Support WITH the server provider to BLOCK Spam

� SHAW Spam report: reportspam@shaw.ca

� RCMP Fraud Attempts Reports - Spam & Scams: info@phonebusters.com

� TELUS Communications Email: abuse@telus.com http://www.telus.com/...

� ; abuse@hotmail.com

� Please note that if the reporting abuse from a Yahoo! member whose email address ends @yahoo.com AND NOT @yahoo.co.uk you need to report this to abuse@yahoo.com. If you are reporting abuse from a Yahoo! member whose email address ends @yahoo.co.uk please reply to this email @yahoo.co.uk

Reporting Spam http://www.spamcop.ne... have to register


Contact the Abuse Department of the Service Provider from where the incident originated.
The relevant information from the offending IP address can be found by performing a 'whois'.
Many 'whois' sites exist, an excellent trusted site is: http://www.arin.net/w...
If there is no abuse contact listed, simply try the email address of abuse@domainname.com or hostmaster@domainname.com (where domainname.com is the actual domain name as found in the whois).


When contacting any Abuse Department, it is necessary to include all pertinent information such as the IP Address, date, time and time zone of the incident. This can be found in the full email header or firewall log. If you are unfamiliar with how to obtain this information from your email or firewall program, try the help menu from the application, or the developers support web site for detailed instructions.

Click on PROPERTIES of the email - then Click on DETAILS . . . the window will show up with

Return-path: <

Return-path: <

Received: . . . etc

COPY by highlighting ALL of the text and COPY all by using Ctrl + c


PASTE this into a NEW email window, label the item in subject. . .
e.g SPAM about $investment 5 million to TERMINATE with Thanks then send to appropriate server


Please note for spam complaints the email address in the "From:" is easily spoofed. To track down the real sender/spammer/offender, internet abuse teams decipher the e-mail's full header information which shows:

(1) IP address from where the spam was sent from
(2) date it was sent
(3) time it was sent
(4) GMT offset of the time in (3) . . . the contents, how ever it looks


These pieces of information will identify the individual using the Internet at the time of the complaint.


How to look up full header information http://spamcop.net/fo...