Reporting Suspicious Criminal Postings.

James

On Sunday 23 Sep there was a posting in this forum titled: fake and registered passports andother identity documents.

Passports and other documents (fake or real) were claimed to be available for almost anywhere in the world.

The posting gave contact details of the sellers (email addresses and telephone numbers).

I marked the posting as Spam and it was promptly removed.

What I’d like to know is:

Does the Moderator report this sort of posting? If so who to?

Should we? If so, who to?

Reason for asking:

I'd hate to think this wasn't picked up by Law Enforcement Agencies.

(Reposted on advice from the Credit Card Forum)

Coopdivi

This type of post, which was probably created by a bot, appears on a regular basis on MSE across the various boards. They normally appear in the early morning and quickly get deleted. The linked sites are run by criminals from eastern Europe, typically Ukrainians and Russians. They almost certainly won't have any of the passports, ID documents, credit cards or whatever they claim to have but instead are phishing for credit/debit card numbers from anybody who is daft enough to visit their websites.

It's a waste of time reporting this sort of spam to the authorities because the criminals reside in areas which are beyond the reach of law enforcement agencies.

Zanzib

Something similar turned up on recently a forum I belong to (elsewhere).

MothballsWallet

Coopdivi wrote: »

This type of post, which was probably created by a bot, appears on a regular basis on MSE across the various boards. They normally appear in the early morning and quickly get deleted. The linked sites are run by criminals from eastern Europe, typically Ukrainians and Russians. They almost certainly won't have any of the passports, ID documents, credit cards or whatever they claim to have but instead are phishing for credit/debit card numbers from anybody who is daft enough to visit their websites.

It's a waste of time reporting this sort of spam to the authorities because the criminals reside in areas which are beyond the reach of law enforcement agencies.

There's probably some Americans involved in this type of crime as well: it's multi-national, after all.