U. S. A.

[Gentle Giant]

From an American:

thank you for the warning and god bless you....your friend manny

[Dororo]

From YIM victim:

Thank you so much for the warning.He got no money from me.i will be fine.Thanks again for informing me.

[De Master Yoda]

Mr XXXX

Thank You for your warnings, I have taken them into consideration and stopped all contact with the dickhead/Mr Edwards.

William (Bill) xxxx
xxxxxxx@Yahoo.com
_________________

[De Master Yoda]

A nice simple thank you.

thanks,figured as much,
Got another from a Christopher Hill Yahoo Lottery UK
with another fees scam

from Sxxxxxxx@aol.com

[De Master Yoda]

xxxx,
Thank you for the e-mail. Mr. Jones presented something that sounded
too good to be true.

Regards,
xxx xxxxxxxx

[Garreg Ddu]

The Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. response to a warning posted on their website contacts page:

From: FraudReply
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:17 PM
To: ********@hotmail.com
Subject: fraud

Thank you for contacting us concerning a fraud perpetrated against you by a person using the Ashley Furniture name in their Email address. While we are concerned about the fraud perpetrated on you, please be advised that none of the people perpetrating this fraud against you have any connection or affiliation with Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

For Ashley Furniture to pursue this case further, we will need you to forward us the following information (if you have included this information in this or a previous email, please disregard):

1. Email Headers (see attached document for instructions on obtaining email headers from many popular email clients)

2. Include a copy of the fraudulent email (if not included previously)

Once we have this information, we will take the following actions:

1. Submit a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which is administered by the FBI.

2. Submit a complaint with the abuse desk of the perpetrators Internet Service Provider (ISP).

3. Send an email to the perpetrator that sent the original fraudulent email requesting that they do not send any more fraudulent emails.

If you have actually been defrauded of any money, we ask that you contact your local law enforcement agency to report the crime. Once this has been done, please send the details of the case including the precinct involved, contact person at the precinct, and case number to fraudreply$@ashleyfurniture.com. We will be tracking these cases independently of the fraud claims submitted to the fraudreply@ashleyfurniture.com address.

The National Consumer League (NCL) in partnership with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) have created the www.fakechecks.org website, which has additional information regarding Internet fraud. Within the NCL site (http://www.fraud.org/info/contactnfic.htm), there is an online form you can submit with additional information regarding your particular case.

Regards,
Fraud Reply
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc
1 Ashley Way
Arcadia, WI 54612

Which shows that some companies are definitely waging war on the scammers, even on Independence Day!!!.

I have replied with thanks on behalf of AFI.

[yullan]

Sometimes when I get those scam e-mails - especially from SCHOOLS, for pity sakes, I not only report them to the FBI, I will make sure that the school knows about it too.

Here is the message of the internet administrator of Lincoln Land Community College:

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have taken steps to disable this email account.

If you continue to receive such items from the msnyder@llcc.edu or any other llcc.edu email address, please do not hesitate to contact me. The long header information you provided was immensely helpful to us. We are very appreciative!

Thanks,

Tamie Penning
Web Administrator
Information and Telecommunication Systems
Lincoln Land Community College
Springfield, IL 62794

I can't be more thankful for helping out!

I would say that 95% of the computer knowledge I have is through our community college system. I credit my silly predilection to explore and the fantastic people that I meet along the way for the remainder of that (often on the head) 5% lump of wisdom.

Another responsible person is: Steve Murphy - the Network Manager of Bentlay Walker Internet Sevice Providers in the U.K. He writes:

Dear Sir
We will look into this unfortunately It would appear this is coming from an Internet cafe in Lagos

Best Regards

Steve Murphy

Network Manager

Bentley Walker

Simply for having responded to my notice both Steve Murphy and Tamie Penning get 5 stars for their professionalism!

I'm glad that we have a special section for Kudos in our bulletin just for folks such as these!

[yullan]

Mowgli of Ohio State University Network Security Group says:

Thanks for reporting it, the user's account was compromised, and has
been reset.
Later, <Mowgli>
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The Ohio State University Network Security Group | Mowgli Assor
---------------------------------------------------+--------------------------
E-mail : security@osu.edu | Network Security Engineer
Web : http://www.infosec.ohio-state.edu | Office : (Use E-mail)

OSU gets 5 stars for professionalism!

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[anonymous-x]

I'm in the USA & I'm greatfull this site is here. I'm new at computers so I'm having trouble copiing or forwardeing the spam I'm receiving. There are many already posted that I too have received. Again Thank you.

[De Master Yoda]

@anonymous-x. Welcome to AFI. It was kind of you to say thank you and it is appreciated.

You can post the emails by copying and pasting them here, but please remove any of your personal details (email and name etc) before posting.

I hope you enjoy your time with us on AFI.