Reporting spam is useful only if the recipient of your report can analyze the full headers of the spam email you received. If you don't know how to show full headers of an email in the email client or web mail application you are using, you can find instructions for a large number of programs and applications on this helpful page: How to Get Full Headers in Your Software. (The WHO@ site has more helpful information you may want to look at.)
Reporting addresses are organized by type of spam.
Note that country is specified only when that is part of the criteria for reporting to the email address given; the country code is mentioned in the same column: if a spam contains a phone number, that makes it easier to recognize which country it relates to (some countries share a country code). If no country is mentioned, origin of spam and origin of reporter don't play a role in reporting. When a web site has content in English those pages are referenced here.
Some organizations prefer reporting through a web-based form or provide no other mechanism; with a few exceptions you'll find them mentioned here only if they also have an email address for reporting spam.
Also known as Advance Fee Letter Fraud or West African / Nigerian Letters. More useful information at Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website.
Please also check the 'Lottery scams' and 'General spam and country-specific reporting addresses' pages!
| Organization | Email address | Country code |
Criteria | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Federal Police | er-waoc@afp.gov.au | Australia 61 |
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| PNCC | wafl@phonebusters.com | Canada 1 |
The PNCC is very interested in receiving copies of any 'new' versions of Nigerian letter scheme, particularly those involving Canadian mailing addresses or telephone numbers. | The PNCC is a joint partnership involving the Ontario Provincial Police
and the RCMP. See also: |
| Korps Landelijke Politie Diensten, afdeling Landelijk Bureau Fraude | lbf@planet.nl | Netherlands 31 |
If you are in the Netherlands and have become a victim of a 419 scammer. Note: Email address my be overloaded; if your mail doesn't arrive try calling 079 - 345.89.02 |
See also (in Dutch): |
| South African Police Service | commdetectiveandci@saps.org.za or vdventera@saps.org.za (if the first address bounces) |
South Africa 27 |
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| Metropolitan Police Fraud Alert | fraud.alert@met.police.uk | United Kingdom 44 |
Only your letter/e-mail contains details of the fraudsters bank accounts / addresses / telephone numbers. | Note: If you are in the UK but have suffered no financial loss, examples of Internet '419'
Advance Fee Fraud should be forwarded to your local fraud squad for investigation, whose location is obtainable through
your local police station.
See also: |
| NCIS | waocs@ncis.gov.uk | United Kingdom 44 |
If you are in the UK and you are losing money to 419 fraud. As an intelligence agency, NCIS has no operational capacity but can offer assistance to individuals subject to ongoing advance fee fraud through this email address. | See also:
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| United States Secret Service (Department of the Treasury) | 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov | USA 1 |
If you are in the US or the spam originates in the US. If you are not a victim of this scam but merely wish to report, use "FYI: No monetary loss" as the subject of your email. |
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Additions and corrections are welcomed. Please provide a reference to a web page or other evidence that the owner of the email address actually wants to receive spam reports; also specify reporting criteria when known. Reporting spam to an address that isn't set up to handle that particular type of spam will hinder rather than help!