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U.S. Post Office to Crack Down on International Email Fraud

By McNabb Associates

The e-mails arrive from Nigeria, Russia, Holland or other countries. They assert inheritances, political strife, long lost loves, and some have resorted to death threats. The common theme, however, is that they all need to get money out of whatever country they are in and if you help, they promise to let you share the bounty.[1] It would seem easy to write this off as a bogus piece of spam, but thousands of people believe these are real and lose, on average, $3,000 to $4,000 each.[2]Hoping to stem the losses, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced a massive international crackdown in which more than 540,000 fake checks with a face value of $2.1 billion have been seized.[3] There have been 60 arrests in the Netherlands, 16 in Nigeria and one in Canada, the Postal Inspection Service said, and the effort is continuing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Federal Crimes Blog on October 10, 2007 (boomark / email).