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>>Just received this in my email. Anybody had anything similar? Who / where
>>do I report this to? It's obviously a major scam to poloin naive credit
>>card holders into revealing their card number and expiry dates. May lose
>>some of the formatting has it's in HTML:
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>I agree with you. But getting police to act is practically impossible. >
>I obtained the address of an obvious scammer and emailed the police in
>Vancouver with a copy of the scam but got nowhere. The police were
>saying: "How do you know the claims aren't true" even though if
>something similar was posted here no one would think "oooh, that's a
>good way to make money"!
How did you know the scammer was in Vancouver, or even in Canada? There's no reliable way of identifying where these people because they usually do a good job of disguising their location.