Who do I report e-mail phish scams to?
Question:
Dear Rep To Be,
We are glad to offer you for a job position with our
company.We need someone to work for the company as a
Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view
of our not having an office presently in the USA.You
don't need to have an Office and this certainly won't
disturb your currenty job, rather supplement your
current income.Our Company specialises in the
Sourcing,Outsourcing and Procurement of any commodity
from the Eastern European supply base.
We undertake order placement as a one-off batch and
project management of the transfer of an entire series
of processes and commodities without compromising
quality.We source the following variety of clothing
materials:- batiks,assorted fabrics for interior
decor, silk and traditional costumes which we have
clients we supply weekly in the USA.
The average monthly income is about 4000USD(1000 USD
salary inclusive).
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 ho
Answer:
The FTC is the government agency in the USA whose job it is to deal with spam. Here is their web site: http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
The problem with using this, is that you get an e-mail address to forward the junk to and there is no feedback. I have forwarded thens of thousands of spam to them and itere is no report on if they doing anything with it, if it doing any good for me to keep forrwarding this.
That's why I now use KnujOn.
There are several government and volunteer efforts to put a spammer in the slammer, and deal with other Internet criminals. I have tried several of the efforts, and so far the best I have found is
(a) KnujOn
http://www.knujon.com/howtosend.html...
(b) get your ISP to run some interference for you
(c) learn how to be careful with your e-mail being harvested ... for example, do you have people who do mass forwarding of humor e-mails that have other people e-mails intact ... if they do that with humor you forward to them, that is one place they get your e-mail address
Here are some KnujOn links
http://www.knujon.com/faq.html
http://www.knujon.com/howtosend.html...
http://www.knujon.com/categories.html...
http://www.knujon.com/le.html
An excellent aspect of their service is that you get positive feedback ... do you get any of those e-mails trying to get you to buy some stock so the price will go up so the spammer will dump the stock, make oodles of money and financially hurt you? Thanks to me forwarding that to KnujOn, the Securities and Exchange Commission have put scores of those people in jail, and KnujOn has provided feedback to let me know that my forwarding is doing some good.
After you register with the site, you forward your junk mail to them, in which you have to be sufficiently familiar with the different kinds to use different e-mail addresses (see this link) to forward the different kinds, so each can go to the different efforts to deal with different kinds of criminal activity.
http://www.knujon.com/howtosend.html...
http://www.knujon.com/knujon.html...
more links
http://www.knujon.com/privacyprotect.htm...
That's just a scam, not phishing. Phishing purports to be email from a known reputable source, such as a bank, eBay, PayPal, etc, and it attempts to get you to click their links to "verify" your information so they can "fish" it (hence the name).
This is just a shady offer.
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