I have had a lot of emails from scammer lately. One such scammer offers to buy something you are selling at a higher price asking personal and banking information. Some scammers actually have money, other people's money usually pirated from fraud schemes.

I found one such scammer a big scammer with employees, real-estate, big servers and knows how to coordinate, collecting and stealing personal data like name, business& banking data to use for future fraud schemes on others.

The FBI ic3-(internet crime agency) has received complaints on this big guy and the email companies that have hosted emails have taken action. But because this scammer has money and power, servers and know how is able to get a new emails.

The biggest reason why scammer like this one can not be stopped is because people do not take the time to report them. They think the spam button take care of it. Not the case, all that does is block the same email address from coming back to the inbox.

One really needs to do more I would invite others to take action.

By following these four easy steps and help get these email pirates off the internet.

1) I would keep a file on each suspect fraud scammer keep that header information and data on each one, sort of like a library of fraud scammers. Then when you receive emails you can check them against your data files received. If they are not on your list does not mean they are not a new one but at lease you can take a breath.

2) Go to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Fill out the form. http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/ This agency will investigate and passes the fraud data on to the proper authorities, if it is local the police, sheriff, state police, if it out of country the European Union has there own Internet Crime Complaint Center.

3) Contact the email company such as Yahoo, AT&T or what every company hosting the fraud scammer and ask them to take action. Give them your proof with header information and fraud proof and let them know you contacted the Internet Crime Complaint Center and have fill out a complaint. More then likely they will send you a response stating they have taken action or not taken action and there reasons as per their terms and condition policy and remember because of privacy rules they cannot tell you what action they have or have not taken.

4) Here are the email address's you can forward you email with your spammers header and a brief note:

 Please take action on this crook, take away his/her email rights they are conducting fraud, breaking all ICANN laws, terms and condition policies.

abuse@gmail.com
abuse@craigslist.org
abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net
phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com
photosynth@live.com
ietf-action@ietf.org.
spam@uce.gov
lotfraud@microsoft.com.
support_x_EN_SY@css.one.microsoft.com
spam@uce.gov 

Follow all of the suggestion provided by the government; each state has laws on how to handle fraud scammers and remember only you are can prevent fraud scammers. http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/

http://www.ic3.gov/media/2007/070627.htm

http://www.ic3.gov/media/FraudAlert.pdf

If you wish to view/download your complaint or have any additional information

To provide to the IC3, please use the following link and login with the above

Internet schemes and ways to protect yourself,

Please visit http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/.