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As we already know the TSM Group/ is (NOT) this the real deal, although I have to say one of the better scams out there. What I would like to know is to whom and how to I report them and which ones are genuinely proactive and successful in the combat of email scammers from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Australia and Great Britain?
Because these scams often cross international borders there's not a lot that can be done, I'm with Curlyben, just delete the emails in the knowledge that NOTHING that good could be true!
I enjoy replying to 419 scammers from my unsed email address. I like to think I am tying up their time
I have 2 at the moment, one of them claims to have money in the bank of africa, and I should contact this guy in the bank of africa. And another completely unrelated to the first one claims to work at the bank of africa! I'll see if they can stick their facts together!
Deleting is always the best and only defence for this stuff. They wouldnt be doing it if nobody fell for it.
I have often maintained that the asker is often not in the best position to judge the quality of an answer. If they were, they wouldn't need to ask in the first place.
As Ben indicated, he is a Network security person. So this is one of stronger areas. Yet you, who clearly know little about this, are telling him he gave wrong advice!
As he mentioned these people use spoofed IP, throwaway e-mail etc to avoid prosecution. In addition they operate from countries that don't have agencies to monitor their scams.
If you want to waste your time, report them at FTC.gov.
And next time, don't be so quick to disagree on something you don't know enough about.
I sometimes try replying back, with one of those Nigerian scam ones where they need your help to recover money from a lost relative I replied back saying i was having my team of lawyers (who have a contacts with lawyers in his area) look into it and also asking the help of the RCMP (Canadian equivalent of the FBI)
He replied back with a short, hastily written thing saying he had found a way to resolve the problem and thanks but dont bother.
But there actually are places to report these. In Canada there is an Anti-fraud Agency who (claim) they will track the source of the email and report it to the local police in that country Welcome to PhoneBusters
In the US there isnt a government agency that will look into this at the moment, but some non profit groups look into it Anti-Phishing Working Group, but I think they are rather powerless to do anything.
I dutifully report stuff to and spoof@paypal. I get back very nice emails. So how many of you have seen stories about any of these low lives getting busted? At least RR keeps a bunch of stuff from ever coming through.
Reply with a very, very large text, picture or whatever file and send it to them they will have to delete it and waste their time doing so. I do if I receive it more than once.
Funny thing, after they get this very large file in email I never hear from them again. I wonder why???
Because these are normally sent from fake email addresses asking you to call, write or fax a certain number etc. and your large picture file is going nowhere.
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