Comments on: Fake Confirmation Email from Tara Bartholomaios (Mrs.)

By: Tommy L.

Tommy L. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:19:54 +0000

Really insightful posts here. Glad I finally found this place. I can’t remember who referred me here, but sure glad they did.

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:43:17 +0000

They use the British way of spelling “Favourite” rather than the more commonly used “favorite” so that gives a clue that it is outside the US

By: Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:34:27 +0000

You can search out the IP address of an email by making the headers visible. Either turn the headers on (in yahoo-mail’s options) or “view source” of the email. They use free emails like yahoo and so on, so it is not easy to catch them at that place, but sometimes you can get the authorities interested in busting their web site (when they give one).

I have done a number of sting operations on these scams, but the Treasury Dept (who handle Nigerian scams and such things) don’t want to put civilians in harm’s way, so we never set up meetings with the scammers. Many of these scamsters run their scams from outside the country, in places where these internet scams are not fully illegal or where there is no extradition treaties with the US.

They make it difficult to prosecute.

By: tiger

tiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:47:16 +0000

Now they are using another name: Cindy Winehouse.Is there a way to track their ip adress and contact authorities?

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:21:32 +0000

they are using a new name now, Jennifer Smith