She included the email that she had received, which was different than this one but from the same ‘name’ as this one.

“Pls. check and kindly report this spammer email to the higher and proper authority to take this definite action.”

The authorities are swamped with these things and are really only interested in persuing where people have actually lost money. Not the case this time… sorry.

Beyond that these are the problems – forget the scam element, let’s just think about the spam factor. The spammers are in one country, the zombie email servers are in another country (or multiple countries). What jurisdiction has the crime occurred in?

She’s in Australia – I’m in the United States of America. I don’t have the headers to her email (or this one from December, actually – it’s from before I started keeping them in case law enforcement wanted me to help them) so we don’t know where the spam came from. It could have come from virtually any country in the world.

On a side note – I have finally gotten the SMTP port closed on this server. To you humans that means that spammers can’t use this server to send their spams. Not that anyone had, but I couldn’t figure out how to turn that particular service off completely. I kept seeing spammers attempt to use this machine to send their spam offers. The attempts came (literally) from all over the world – especially China, by the way. They are what started me on figuring out how to ban, block, or turn off the outgoing mail service on this server.

Brian