Michael and list, Your local FBI office should be able to handle the matter and pass it off to interpol which has a special unit for tracking and closing sender sites of these obnoxious emails. Thanks. Dirk Ross....Tokyo
Walter Branch wrote: > Hi Mike and List Members, > > >I am the widow of the former ruler of Timbuktoo and I >have > > This scam as been around since the day after Al Gore invented the internet > (just kidding, about Gore that is). I used to receive these things via the > postal service and I routinely used to turn them over to the investigations > unit but like the Campo del Cielo that was lost enrout to Norway last > December, I have yet to hear back from the USPS. > > >IS THERE A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY TO >WHICH I CAN REPORT EACH > >TURKEY THAT DOES THIS? > > Yes, but they are located in Timbuktoo :-) > > Seriously, there probably is but what good would it do. Your email address > was harvested by an automated piece of code, placed in a database and > matched to various versions of that letter, then sent to you. The process > is completely automated - unless of course you send some money :-) > > Besides, you can't even get live telemarketers to stop calling, so I doubt > anyone can stop these guys. > > -Walter > > ----------------------------------------------- > Walter Branch, Ph.D. > Branch Meteorites > 322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B > Savannah, GA 31405 USA > www.branchmeteorites.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:46 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] Apologies > > > Hi all, > > Apologies for a non-meteorite post, BUT, I do think this is efecting > > everyone.... > > I don't know about y'all, but I keep getting an INCREASING number of > > solicitations from nit wits from other countries with a story along the > > lines of: > > " I am the widow of the former ruler of Timbuktoo and I have > > 27 million dollars I have to get out of this country without being > detected > > by the terrible oppressors who killed my saintly hustband. I heard you are > > an honest person, so, I want to send it all into your account and give you > > 15% for the favor" > > It always goes on and on. > > This wasn't so bad two or three times a year, but it is now up to > 5 > > or 6 times a week. > > IS THERE A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY TO WHICH I CAN REPORT EACH > > TURKEY THAT DOES THIS? > > If so, PLEASE tell me the email address to foreword these absurd > > scam artists who pray on the truly lame brained. > > Sorry for the non-meteorite post, but I bet everyone on this list > > would LOVE the opportunity to do more than just hit "delete" when > > this crapolla comes to us nearly every day. > > Thanks, Michael > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
