uk govenment wants your scam/phishing emails

utopiandream

please forward every scam/phishing email you get from now to 26feb to
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/scamnesty/ hopefully we can get the government to finally start doing something to end all these scams.
ps use phishfighting.com to send 500 fake replys to phishers eg fake bank emails !

dogmaryxx

[QUOTE ps use phishfighting.com to send 500 fake replys to phishers eg fake bank emails ![/QUOTE]

Closed down

Basil1234

phishfighting.com has shut down:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

good info on your post hmmm me thinks should check sources first :beer:

Aiadi

When the UK government can sort other things out like crime, education and health only then I could start to believe they'll be able to sort some of the spam out.

John_Gray

utopiandream wrote: »

please forward every scam/phishing email you get from now to 26feb to
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/scamnesty/ hopefully we can get the government to finally start doing something to end all these scams!

What do you suggest the UK Government can actually DO about scam emails, given that the vast proportion of the scammers are not within the jurisdiction of the UK Government, let alone that of the EU?

Did you hear about King Canute when you were at school? Then draw the parallel...

cit_k

If the UK gov has to ask for emails to be forwarded, they obviously dont have the brains to harvest them themselves, so have no chance of solving this problem.

Unless its a scam, and a way to get the public on board so they can introduce draconian legislation for monitoring the net... Possibly paid for by taxing it.

fiddiwebb

cit_k wrote: »

If the UK gov has to ask for emails to be forwarded, they obviously dont have the brains to harvest them themselves, so have no chance of solving this problem.

Unless its a scam, and a way to get the public on board so they can introduce draconian legislation for monitoring the net... Possibly paid for by taxing it.

That's the last thing we want :eek:
Yes, I can see it now.........if you want us to sort/stop this problem you have to give us control on what you see & do on the net.

davester

Maybe the Government wants these emails so they can send their bank account details to help get some of dead Dr Umbongo's money, thats locked up in some nigerian bank. They think it will be a great way to recoup some of their debts

cit_k

I would be wary of sending them infected emails, it would probably infect them and they would end up releasing nationally sensitve data into the hands of the scammers, I bet they are that incompetent....

oldtoolie

Seems to me that this is a marketing campaign to raise awareness about scams. There's no indications that any action will be with the scam emails forwarded.

busenbust

Yeah, that's right; they want our scam/phishing emails [rolleyes]; perhaps they can recirculate as the Conficker worm virus - take a look at the NHS :rotfl:.