Given the almost daily nature of these approaches, a PLASA Member has passed on to us advice issued by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS): "Make contact with your local constabulary fraud squad or commercial crime unit. Each constabulary has a dedicated officer to whom you should forward such communications. Do not under any circumstance reply to the fraudsters responsible for sending out these communications.
"If you have entered into communication with the fraudsters and thereafter sent money or met with them, then contact NCIS at victim@spring39.demon.co.uk or call 020 7238 8012." If you are not based in the UK, then you should make contact with the National Law Enforcement Agency in your own country which leads investigations into Advance Fee Fraud.
The NCIS also recommends that you consider forwarding a copy of the e-mail to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) from where it has originated. These e-mails to the ISPs should be addressed to abuse@‘the ISP’s name’. By this method the ISPs will be able to quickly terminate the accounts that abuse their systems.
