RE: Subject/Anonymous

Jimmy_Kuo@private

While I agree the post was rude and should have been conducted privately, it
is important that people do some internet searches on their own.

And sending these reports to the feds when this issue is so old just ties up
valuable resources.

A different way to approach this issue is, "I know this is a scam.  I've
done the searches and enough reading.  But does the [govt entity] know about
this already?"

Then we know that the person has done their own research.  And we can make
some good use of this list to offset wasting the time of the Secret Service,
for example.

I mean, those "some" people who reported it themselves to the feds, how much
good will did they burn up with their contact?  If these people did this a
few more times, is their contact going to listen to them the next time?

Each time you make use of a contact, you're building a relationship or
destroying it.  And it's much more useful to you to be making positive
progress.

Jimmy

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	The Berean [SMTP:berean@c-squad.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 08, 2001 6:24 PM
> To:	crime@private
> Subject:	RE:  Subject/Anonymous
> 
> 
> I have to speak up because I was a bit disheartened seeing some of the 
> undue rude remarks that were addressed towards Heidi.  I hate to keep 
> beating the drum for my list C-Squad, but the fact is we had a member 
> who also asked the very same question, and the list members bent over 
> backwards tracing the IP, explaining the history behind the scam, and 
> providing contact info to the Secret Service.  Some of them even went 
> through the trouble to report it themselves to the feds.
> 
> My point is much was learned about some of the technical aspects of 
> email, and the member who originally asked the question now has enough 
> knowledge to learn how to trace emails by reading IP headers, etc.  The 
> member is a police officer BTW.
> 
> We have a motley list of professionals ranging from federal agents to 
> technical support employees, to private investigators.  We all treat 
> each other with due respect, and the list benefits extremely as a 
> result.  Our list is designed to encourage all sorts of 
> computer/internet discussions, and some of the info that has passed 
> through were invaluable to me as well as them.  Anyone who flames the 
> list complaining about spam or "irrelevant topics"  gets kicked off.  
> It's really quite that simple.
> 
> In a short while I will launch a portal for C-Squad allowing members to 
> publish articles and other works for the benefit of its members.  
> 
> I do all this at my expense and time,  which I feel is well worth the 
> effort.  :-)
> 
> BTW, I recently moved to a new server, which has had unbelieveable 
> performance and a much improved MLM efficiency (Mailing list manager)
> 
> If you want to join us, take a quick surf to:
> 
> http://c-squad.org/mailman/listinfo/csquad_c-squad.org
> 
> Be safe,
> 
> Frank Pagano
> 
> 