FBI: Dollar Loss from Internet Crime Reaches All-Time High

April 4, 2008

  • April 4, 2008 at 4:23 am
    caffiend says:
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    The following is a classic example of a email scam that is going around. If you receive such an email I seriously recommend that you delete it and do NOT reply.
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    Hafren Furnishers Limited
    89 Newport ave, Scoff ford Area,
    Oxford, L349HA

    Hello, Would you like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job if you have one? Hafren Furnishers Limited, UK.
    Needs an individual in the United States of America/Canada who will be working for the company and I am willing to pay for every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work. Someone who will receive payments on our behalf from our customers in the United States of America/Canada. These payments are in form of Money Orders or otherwise and it will be made payable to your name, so all you need do is cash the Money Orders deduct your 10 % percentage and wire the rest back to me via Western Union money transfer.You will make as much as $300-$700$ per week depending on how effective you are.

    We presently run a Premier Furnishing Company sited in the United Kingdom and we need someone to work for the company as representative/bookkeeper in the USA/CANADA.

    Reply by filling the form below if interested,

    FULL NAME
    FULL ADDRESS(not p.o. box)
    CITY,STATE,ZIP CODE
    PHONE NUMBER (S)
    AGE
    OCCUPATION
    REPLY ASAP :

  • April 5, 2008 at 9:50 am
    wudchuck says:
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    i know it almost happened to me. but i still don’t know where to send these too? have any fbi addresses?

  • April 7, 2008 at 11:36 am
    caffiend says:
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    Having just attended a conference where this topic was covered, I would start by contacting your home state Department of Justice. For North Carolina it’s http://www.ncdoj.gov
    alternatively look at this site
    http://www.ic3.gov/
    or this one
    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/



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