2010 Australian Consumer Fraud Taskforce Survey

The Australian Consumer Fraud Taskforce would like to hear from you. The Taskforce would like to know about any scams that you have received and how you have responded to them. Gathering this information will help to improve the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of scam offenders. To assist in collecting this information, the Australian Institute of Criminology, a taskforce member, is conducting a short online survey.

To participate please click here http://www.aic.gov.au/crime_types/economic/fraud/acft/survey.aspx.


The SCAM email is identified by five key indicators:

1. The "buyer" is always in a remote location, overseas or offshore
2. The "buyer" has no phone access only internet access.
3. The "buyer" can only make payment through PayPal.
4. The "buyer" is offering more money for the vehicle than what's been advertised without ever having viewed the vehicle.
5.The "buyer" is purchasing the vehicle for someone else

Here is an example of the offending email.

Hello,
 Thanks for getting back to me and am sorry for the late reply, I must let you know that am very happy its still available for sale, I must let you know that i will buy it from you. so i am making the final confirmation on the sale, Now an overdraft (excess) international check will be issue out to you in your name for the item and all i will want you to do is to deduct your money as soon as you receive the payment, which is $100 for both. and resend the rest to the person coming for the pickup at your location through western union money transfer, because am from the united kingdom and i have arrange the pickup with him so please understand this because the same person will bring some other items from Australia for me.
 
 So please get back to me with the followings so that the payment can be send to you immediately.

Your full name...?
Your full contact address.......?
Your city...?
Your postal code...?
Your telephone number so that the payment can be send to you.

Note...I will not mind to pay you extra $5 for you to keep it for me till the payment get to you.
 
Regards-
Richard Morgan.

This is a list of email addresses we have identified as exercising scam activity.

richmorgan_1977 at live.com;

neill1987777 at hotmail.com;
icefrezee01 at yahoo.com;
neillberdrossy at hotmail.com;
neill19877 at gmail.com;
marrycole112 at hotmail.com;
alexjohn1 at live.com;
alexjohn1 at live.com;
samuelsmith881 at yahoo.com;
lokom_2008 at yahoo.com;
johnmiss111 at live.com;
craigsmithsailor at yahoo.com;
mdfrexpvps24 at gmail.com;
lokom_2008 at yahoo.com;
railcar at nelsonbay.com;
alexjohngod at gmail.com;
samuelwill007 at yahoo.com;
garrygriffiths1964 at hotmail.com;
deanmarrone86 at gmail.com;
libertyrollon at gmail.com;
bigbruce41444 at hotmail.com;
markjoesmith at gmail.com;
samuelwill0007 at yahoo.com;
jhartmann22 at hotmail.com;
gorfrost at yahoo.com;
gorfost at yahoo.com
joshuahale at live.com
rbemperatriz at gmail.com
hudsonmart at yahoo.com
smithbruce2007 at yahoo.com
flamykuyt at yahoo.com
richy.scott2007 at yahoo.com.au
rockym002 at gmail.com
dale.williams83 at yahoo.com.au
lyudmilasanni at gmail.com
rockymoore001 at gmail.com
paulbriggs04 at gmail.com
kelvinmark222 at yahoo.com
colix01 at yahoo.com
nolankuyt at gmail.com
rediffcribs at yahoo.com
jcle4all at yahoo.com
johnmiss111 at live.com
brendangray002 at gmail.com
neill19877 at hotmail.com
mattlang09 at hotmail.com.au
scorpio9470 at hotmail.com
sonc62 at yahoo.com
mattjean31 at gmail.com
mattcars at ausi.com
mattjean at live.com
gmgabbym25 at gmail.com
cosmic_boggess at yahoo.com
waxxymill at yahoo.com.au
fk0230 at gmail.com
gibbsgiggs at yahoo.com.au
brandcun at googlemail.com
atkinschrislive at gmail.com
atkinschrislive1at gmail.com
trizrbemp at googlemail.com
brandyncunning at yahoo.com
martinscoddy at gmail.com
jbconnection9 at gmail.com
alfred.alfred.smith at hotmail.com
richhyadammy at gmail.com
richhyadammy1 at gmail.com
richhyadammy3 at gmail.com
richhyadammy7 at gmail.com
richhyadammy4 at gmail.com
frankkywilly at gmail.com

AlbanyGateWAy recommends you take the following steps if you receive a scam email from any of the above email addresses:

1. Ignore the email and mark it as junk/spam in your email settings.

2. Do not attempt correspondence with the scammers, they will only harrass you through email.

3. If the email address does not appear on the above list, forward the email to AlbanyGateWAy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You can learn more about how to recognise a scam at WA ScamNet or  Scam Watch