Email fraud. Very important i take the right steps. WHAT DO I DO?

[MadSkillzMan]

Ok, i dont know if anyone else has gotten these. A teacher of mine received one by regular mail, and ive heard of others getting this kind of email.

In short, its someone from Africa, trying to get money into the U.S. and they ask you to open a bank account and such. They ask you for personal info (account number, pins, phone numbers). They start out teling you some huge political dilema that they wer involved with and some assasonation.

NORMALLY id just delete it. And think nothing at all of it. But my teachers, warned us that they could start snooping around family info n financial stuff. Now im only 18 i dont have anything like a bank acccount...well not yet..

My one teacher turned it in to the post office. Long story short the FBI got involved. Same thing with the people from emails. Ive read about people getting these on other boards, but not exactly what they did.

So i wanna play it right. What do i do guys? Oh, and they sent me 2 copies of it as of now. Same address.

[Kendan]

Delete it and add it to the spam filter. and you could use these sites to report it:

http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/index.html

http://www.usdoj.gov/spam.htm

http://www.spamabuse.org/


And here is a good info site on Spam and fraud reporting:

http://www.elsop.com/wrc/complain.htm

[MadSkillzMan]

wow thanx kendan

[XWRed1]

Dude. There's nothing to report. Its called a Nigerian Scam and millions of people have gotten millions of variations of it from many different scammers.

[VeryFirstSMP]

Wow, 18 and no bank account MadSkillzMan, if that is your real name.

[MadSkillzMan]

hey backoff i cant see far enough to get around....or really work.

It is weird, but the reason i guess they got involved with my teacher was because it was sent through email first, then regular mail which is a federal offense.