Reporting Internet,
Email or Fax Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scam Offers or Victimization
If you have been victimized by one of these schemes, I would appreciate
it if you did not direct the scammers to this site. Apart from
attempts to disable the site, they will become aware that their current
aliases need changing. Besides, they don't need proof that
they are crooks. Please forward appropriate written documentation
to the relevant authorities:
UNITED STATES ( and most other countries )
United States Secret Service,
Financial Crimes Division,
419 Task Force
950 H Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20001-4518
or telephone (202) 406-5850 fax: (202) 406-8203, (202) 406-6390
You can report this crime online to the U.S.
Treasury Department Secret Service ( Nigerian Frauds
)
How to report
West African scams to this branch of government.
The Secret Service is apparently tired of getting all your spam
so they now request that you contact a field office only if you have
suffered a substantial loss.
A list of local Field
Offices for the Secret Service.
Materials sent in should still be labeled No Financial Loss -
For Your Database if that is the case and Loss - and
whether or not there is a US Connection - if there was a loss. If
you are from outside the US, you should also note the country you
are from.
If you receive such a letter in the mail, do not respond. Send it
to:
Inspection Service Operations Support Group
Two Gateway Center, 9th Floor
Newark, NJ 07175-0001
UNITED KINGDOM
Anyone in the UK receiving such a letter or e-mail is advised not
to reply.
Currently, businesses have no centralised police unit to report
e-crime to. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) used to co-ordinate
e-crime reports until it was subsumed into the Serious Organised
Crime Agency (SOCA).
SOCA was formed in May 2006 as an amalgamation of the NHTCU, National
Crime Squad (NCS), National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)
and a part of UK Immigration dealing with organised immigration crime
(UKIS).
National Criminal Intelligence Service,
PO Box 8000,
London SE11 5EN
Specialist Crime OCU Fraud Squad
Wellington House, 67-73 Buckingham Gate,
London, SW1E 6BE
+44 (0) 20 7230 1220
www.met.police.uk/fraudalert
fraud.alert@met.police.uk
CANADA
PhoneBusters - Reporting
Canadian-based telemarketing frauds and Nigerian
Fraud
Netherlands
Netherlands authorities are also interested
in receiving copies of correspondence (pertaining to a Dutch address
or telephone number).
KLPD, Financial Crimes Unit,
Post Office Box 3016,
2700 KX Zoetermeer,
The Netherlands,
Attention: C. Schep
voorlichting@klpd.politie.nl
Fraud
form, use this form only to report a fraud case to the Dutch
authorities if you have been the victim of these type of fraudulent
practices.
SOUTH AFRICA
Commercial Crime Branch
Rian Visser
PO Box 367
Rant-en-Dal
1751
Gauteng
South Africa
E-mail: scamreport@commercialbranch.com
Our Organized Crime Unit are concentrating on the 419 scam, and
will be able to use all information to draw profiles and link suspects
to cases.
http://419legal.org/forum/index.php
South African Police
South African Citizens and Residents
If you are a South African Citizen or Resident and have suffered
NO financial loss, write "No financial Loss - For your Database" on
the documents but if you are a South African Citizen or Resident
and YOU HAVE SUFFERED A FINANCIAL LOSS, write "Financial Loss" on
the documents you received and fax them to:
Contact: Supt. Sicro C. Schambriel
Commercial Crime, Head Office
Telephone number (012) 339 1203
Facsimile number (012) 339 1202
mediarelations@saps.org.za
Individual progress reports will not be submitted to you where there
has been NO loss.
Captain Harry Baatjies is commander of the 10-man 419-scam task
team appointed to investigate the crime. Baatjies'
team works closely with a co-ordinating office at police headquarters
in Pretoria, headed by Superintendent Sicro Schambriel.
People who receive proposal letters they believe could be 419-scams are
asked to forward the e-mail to hq.commercial@saps.org.za along
with a note to say whether or not they have responded.
Anyone with information can contact Baatjies on 082-778-7899 or 011-870-5390
during office hours.
International Citizens and Residents
Please fax correspondence, especially any banking data, so that
it can be included in the Database. State what country you are sending
from, and state whether there has been a Loss or there is No Loss.
If there is a South African connection to the 4-1-9 operation, please
clearly state exactly what that is and give details.
Do not expect to be contacted in either NO LOSS cases or in LOSS
CASES without a South African connection.
To date, it remains accurate to say that in the vast majority of
cases, since the authorities will not recover it for you, once you
lose money to the 419ers you will never see it again.
AUSTRALIA
Since 1991 thousands of such 'scam' letters, facsimiles and emails
have been handed to the Australian Federal Police. While the actual
amount of money lost by businesses and the community is unknown,
the number of people claiming to have been defrauded by these letters
is relatively low. It should be noted that the actual sending of
such correspondence does not, under Commonwealth law, constitute
an offence.
The AFP will continue to monitor the situation and suggests you
ignore such letters and advise others to do the same.
Nigerian Federal Police - ?
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