Contacting Gov't Officials

Reporting of Scam in US and International
Law Enforcement Agencies

• Immediately cease all contact with the scammer! Block their email address, ignore their instant messages, and ignore their phone calls
• Make copies if your email conversations, and instant messages. Keep originals for yourself, give copies to the various reporting agencies, and keep all receipts and envelopes, anything that can be used as evidence
• DO NOT walk into the bank and say is this check good, because that gives indications that you want to cash it
• It’s important that the bank know that you have no intentions to cashing the checks; you are simply there to alert the account holder and to turn the check over to someone in authority.

Reporting Agencies and Links:

• FBI IFCC, the US Postal Inspection Service, and the FTC to make a report on –line http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/
  
• National Check Fraud Center http://www.ckfraud.org/faq.html
  
• National Credit Union Administration http://www.ncua.gov/
  
• U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/moalert.htm
  
• EFCC Economic & Financial Crimes Commission http://www.efccnigeria.org/
  
• Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/
  
• Reporting Fraud to the Proper Authorities http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Victims/reporting.htm
  
• Consumer Fraud Reporting http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/reporting.php
  
• US Dept of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/02organizations/02_1.html
  
• US Secret Service Field Offices http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml
  
• US Secret Service- Advance Fee Fraud Advisory http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml 
  
• Local FBI Offices- Field Divisions http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm
  
• Internet National Fraud Information Center Watch http://www.fraud.org/
  
• Ghana Police Service http://www.ghanapolice.org/cid/wanted.htm
  
• Interpol-International Criminal Police Organization http://www.interpol.int/Public/FinancialCrime/FinancialFraud/ChecksFraud20050314.asp
  
• Met.Police.UK http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm 
  
• The Canadian Anti-fraud Call Center http://www.phonebusters.com
  
• Australian Federal Police http://www.afp.gov.au/
  
• Scam Watch Australia http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/links/links.asp
  
• South African Police Service http://www.419legal.org 
  
• Police Economic Crime Unit, Norway http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/cfr.php?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.okokrim.no
  
• US Dept of State Bureau of Internat'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf