Who Would You Report This To?

tesuhoha

Hi

I have received the following email

This is a personal email directed to you, My wife and i won a Jackpot Lottery

of £148.6 Million Pounds on 14 August 2012, and have voluntarily decided to donate

the sum of £1,500,000.00 GBP to you as one our lucky beneficiary as part of our

own charity project to improve the lot of 15 unknown lucky individuals all over the

world.we decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see in other to

relinquish any doubts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/14/british-euromillions-jackpot-winners-revealed

Please provide the following information

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*Full Name:

*Telephone Number:

*Age:

*Country:

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Best Regards

Gillian and Adrian Bayford

This is a scam. I want to report it but not sure who to.

http://www.lottery.co.uk/news/euromillions-winners-victims-of-scam-letter-2615.asp

It says here to report it to the police but I am not sure they would want to be bothered.

fluffnutter

I probably wouldn't bother. I'd just bin it. This type of thing is fairly common and there's enough public knowledge for most people to know it's a scam and ignore it. Those that don't ignore stuff like this despite the warnings are sadly deluded and beyond help unfortunately.

morganedge

Jeremy Beadle?

fluffnutter

I thought he was dead.

SueMaggie

You can report it to Action Fraud -

https://reportlite.actionfraud.police.uk/

tesuhoha

SueMaggie wrote: »

You can report it to Action Fraud -

https://reportlite.actionfraud.police.uk/

Thanks. I've just forwarded the email onto the address given for phishing emails. I did it for the sake of any poor soul conned by these criminals.

meer53

I wouldn't report it to anyone.

Ectophile

I get scam emails every day. There seems little point in reporting them to anyone. The vast majority originate overseas anyway.

wobbley

Maybe,,,



just maybe,,,,




it's for real,,,



:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cooper18

All these should be reported to Action Fraud. It takes seconds to do it and if it stops some poor gullible elderly person from being conned its worth a few seconds of your time.

gb12345

Cooper18 wrote: »

All these should be reported to Action Fraud. It takes seconds to do it and if it stops some poor gullible elderly person from being conned its worth a few seconds of your time.

There really is not point in reporting every single lottery/419/etc scam email you receive to Action Fraud.
All it will do is clog up their systems and reduce their ability to deal with frauds that they can investigate/successfuly warn people about.

Action Fraud will be well aware of the different types of scam email that are available, so can give generic warnings about those.

The emails will be originating from overseas, so sending them the email is not going to result in any arrests. The most they could do would be to publicise the email address as being used for scams or report it to the service provider, but that will be of little or no use as the scammers will just use a new email address.