[Gllug] Internet fraud reporting

[Christian Smith]

Richard Jones uttered:

>
> Talking about illegality and the internet ...
>
> One of the websites I run which runs classified ads recently got hit
> by a suspected scammer who is offering to arrange language school
> places in Britain, but predictably has taken the money and run off.
> The language schools he was supposed to arrange with have no record of
> anything.  Two people got hit by the scam, for not inconsiderable sums
> of money (about 2 grand each).
>
> Although this is not strictly my problem -- we took down the advert
> as soon as we were notified, and traced the advertiser as far
> as an anonymous BT DSL line -- it's tricky for the people involved
> to follow up because they're poor students living abroad.
>
> Should I get involved in reporting this, and if so, to whom?  Local
> police?  London police (where the crime actually occurred)?  SOCA?
> The police's website is confusing and it looks like they won't take
> internet fraud too seriously.


I'd report it to the police and BT's abuse contact. As it was BT's 
customer, they're probably obliged to investigate.

Met police have a specialist crime unit:
http://www.met.police.uk/scd/units/eco_spec_crime.htm

Try them.


>
> Rich.
>
>

--
     /"\
     \ /    ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
      X                           - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS
     / \
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug