How to deal with an internet scammer

[MouseDog]

Everyone who has been scammed on e-bay etc, I have found a way of dealing with these people.

How to get a scammer's email account shut down for abuse
Here's where your fun begins. You initiated dialogue with a seller, who emails you back, without addressing you by your name, with garbage like this:

"Dear Sir , I have initiated the transaction using www.xpress-transaction.com. This is my 4th time when I use this escrow service and I really like this company because they are specialized in motor vehicles transactions..."

I'm no fool, no siree, I'm going to save $10,003! Time to get cranking here dudes, this scammer is playing you and a dozen other victims, from his free Yahoo or AOL email account. Some scammers spoof the sending address so it might say XYZ@Yahoo.com when it's really coming from somewhere else. If you report this spam to Yahoo and AOL, they shut it down almost immediately.

Your Simple Strategy:
You must forward to the abuse team the scammer's email PLUS the IP Address headers (very important). If you are using Microsoft Outlook email, here is what you do:

1) Right click the message in your inbox, and choose Options. A popup window appears and at the bottom is a field that has Internet Headers. You'll see a bunch of garbage that starts off looking like this:

Return-Path: <thomasvanvugt3@yahoo.com>
Received: from web60710.mail.yahoo.com ([216.109.117.233])...... and it keeps on going for several lines.

That IP address you see there is what the abuse team needs to see, so they can verify it really did come from their servers. Select all the lines of IP Headers in the box and do a CTRL-C to copy the header information into your windows clipboard. You're almost done!

2) Now go to his email, hit the Forward button, and paste the Internet Headers right above the scammer's message. Include a brief note to the abuse team that this scammer is sending victims to a known fraudulent escrow site. His poor English and grammar should be a giveaway.

* For Yahoo, mail it off to abuse@yahoo.com with the subject "Abuse: Nigerian Scam/Spammer". That seems to have the most success
* For AOL, mail it off to abuse@aol.com with the subject "Abuse: Nigerian Scam/Spammer"
* For eBAY: Scroll to the very bottom and click on "Report This Listing"
* For craigsList: In the upper right of your browser click on the gray "Prohibited" button 10 times
* For all others, insert the ISP name, abuse@Whatever-Their-Mail-Service-Is.com, with the subject > "Abuse: Nigerian Scam/Spammer"

3) I also use SpamCop.net to submit him as spam. The reason is, Yahoo automatically shuts down any email account that receives a SpamCop.net complaint. Pretty stupid huh? But we can use that in our favor to get the scammer's email shut down in a few hours. Also, SpamCop.net does a great job of reverse engineering the internet headers for you to determine where the email really came from and automatically notifies the abuse team of the proper ISP. This effectively renders useless any tricks the scammers used to spoof/hide their own email service.

NOTE: If you don't send the internet IP headers, the abuse team will ignore your email, because they MUST verify the IP address of the sender as coming off their email server, and you would have wasted your time.

After the scammer's email account is shut down for abuse...
The scammer will email you the next day from another address, saying "Sorry, I had problems with my other Yahoo account." I'll bet you did buddy! LOL! When he tries to continue business with you, turn in his new email address to the abuse desk! This is an important step in the fight against online fraud, as many victims tell me they saved themselves at the last minute when the scammer started emailing them from another address, and the victim became suspicious and bailed on the deal. I'm no fool, no siree, I'm going to save $20,003! Shutting the scammer's email account saves several people.
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[Zimbo]

As an alternative, have a look on here

https://www.419eater.com/

Warning: you may lose your day, it sucks you in, pretty humerous in places!

try here for starters . . .

https://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm

[bikerbanditz]

I normally just send them a rather fruitfull e-mail back. Normally it does the trick but the Prince Of Nigeria has already contacted me 6 times this week.
Banditz
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