How to Report Nigerian Scams etc

[wazza]

The Australian government has set up a " Dont get Scammed " web site to assist people in their decision making !!

Australians are amongst the highest scammed nation world wide and continue to contribute millions every year to these con people.

The web link below allows you to report the email scam you have received.

http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/ind ... mId/694011

It lists a significant number / types of scams out there for the unsuspecting receiver of their emails. Worth reading , Doesnt have the WBU as yet

http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/ind ... mId/694299

[Aardvark]

That's disapointing news Wazza to find out that Australians are some of the dumbest s in the world, haven't they heard of delete ??

[wazza]

Aardvark

here is a classic example, $800 K

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 02,00.html

PS, if u send me ur ISPN, and ur Password for UM, i will send you some more

[laphanphon]

dumbest s in the world

that is sad, they are all way too obvious. i would think anyone smart enough to negotiate the internet would be smart enough to sniff out these as scams. i have millions but need help............yea, right.



send me all your personal info, and don't tell nobody..............and no warning bells go off.

[polehawk]

Probably the same scumbags who scam the elderly back in the states and Canada via telephone. Think the do-not-call list put a bit of a crimp to a lot of those, however. Also have the TV evangelicals preying on the elderly and slow witted ones back there. Never noticed any Nigerians on the shows but not a regular viewer. [-o<

[Ba Bob]

There are some low lifes out there when you read that web site its hard to understand how people fall for some of those scams though.
So to find out more I have sent the wesite USD$1000!!

Australians are amongst the highest scammed nation world wide and continue to contribute millions every year to these con people

hey Wazza were did you get this from?? i read through the site and they dont mention anything about it there.

[wazza]

Ba Bob

It was originally written a few months ago in a Queeensland ? newspaper , when a Police Superintendent again advised Australians about the scams. It was following a huge scam involving 2 highly qualified professional people, who lost over a $1,000,000 i think.

The Scamers even flew to Oz, to authenticate the entire scam,

[wazza]

This is the original link that then had more stories filter from it.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 02,00.html

In Queensland alone over $500,000 a month going offshore to scamers

an online comment about this was

" Thank god for the scammers, they weed out the idiots in our society "

[Ba Bob]

you clarified it now not Australians, Queenslanders!!

Sorry just a little joke for you canetoads!!

but even in your stories there is no comparison to how many people are conned in other parts of the world. and what Im questioning you on is

Australians are amongst the highest scammed nation world wide

But more interesting is that the majority of the scams are not really based in Africa!!

[wazza]

This site confirms $18 million from Oz.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/qu ... 24371.html

The Queensland Police web site

http://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/c ... _scams.htm



www.hotscams.com is another site with some good info.........

[izzix]

scammers are targeting online dating forums , a thai gal i know was contacting by what she thought was a Brit gent looking for a wife. turned out he was a nigerian scammer who tried to pull an davance fee scam on her by saying she needed to pay out 50,000 baht to get a parcel containing a load of dosh to build the house of her dreams .he said he sent the cash and it would be released when she coughed up the advance fee . she didnt have such a sum anyway .

[izzix]

all leads lead back to Lagos althought they have agents in eastern europe to throw suckers off the scent .

[Farang1]

Alot of the scams come out of Nigeria. I think they teach it in their schools, Scamming101. Sometimes, I'll copy the text of one email and send it to the reply email address of another. Let them scam each other.