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Great idea Mercenary, if we all work together we can certainly make things harder for the scammers. Whenever I receive a scam email that names a legit company I always forward a copy to the company at the 'contact us address' and link it back to the appropriate posting on 419legal, with a short explaination about the purpose of the scam and ask them if maybe they could post a warning on their home page to stop innocent people getting caught up in the scam. I also explain that the scam's are not a 'one off event' but organised crime run by career criminals. In the majority of cases the warning will appear within a few hours, Ok so we can't stop the scammers, but we can certainly make it harder for them to get new victims.
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