Internet Fraud

Someone contacted me about their late father that has passed away and left them money. They want me to be the next of kin, and share the left over family valuables (including millions of dollars). This person claims to reside in Africa, and needs help coming to America to start investing. They are very very convincing. I've talked with them over the internet, e-mail, and they offered to call and talk but I told them my number was private. I went as far as I could until they ask for personal information. I'm at the point now where I claim the valuables from the bank. The bank (the scammer most likely) is asking for some personal information. With a little research of the bank, I came up with this http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://news.abidjan.net/article/%3Fn%3D215528&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTEL%2B:%2B22505035421%26hl%3Den%26hs%3D3Am%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official The site mentions the very SAME name of the person who is talking to me and offering the same exact information. So obviously my suspicions were true. So Apparantly this person has been doing it for awhile, so I want to make sure that they are dealt with properly before getting spooked. Anyone know what I can do?

inform near by police and they will take care by informing it to cyber crime department of your state. if you know personally then let them know.

Just report these as phising messages. Gmail has these features. This information about phising sites is stored at some databases, which are then accessed by all the mail servers around the world to forewarn the users about these kinds of scam

The answer to your question is ''The Internet Crime Complaint Center" or IC3. It is a partnership between FBI and NW3C. Read more here: http://www.ic3.gov/ Also read this important thing: http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm These scams are known as Nigerian 419 scams. Use the relevant links on these websites to lodge your complaint.