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Fraud Involving Unauthorised Use of DHL Name
Dear Mr. Viggo Sloth:
Thank you for letting us know the facts concerning a package that was supposed to be sent to you via DHL. Unfortunately, you are the target of an elaborate fraud or ?scam? which has no connection to DHL.
The following is the pattern of these frauds:
A high-value product, e.g., a laptop computer, is offered for sale on an Internet shopping or auction site such as Ebay - usually at an attractive-sounding price. If you respond to the offer, you will receive one or more e-mails from a named individual (supposedly the seller, possibly located in a country other than yours) and/or a ?delivery notification? and ?instructions? which appear to be from DHL. You are instructed that DHL will hold the product ?as a trusted third party? and will deliver it to you as soon as the seller has received confirmation that the price has been paid in cash, in person, via Western Union. The ?delivery notification? appears to have originated from a DHL website.
The above situation is an Internet ?scam?. DHL?s name and trademarks are being used fraudulently, without our consent. DHL does not (and would not) act as an intermediary for fraudulent Internet sellers. We have a Fraud Alert posted on the DHL global website, http://www.dhl.com/fraud, as well as on several DHL country websites where this type of fraud is known to have occurred. We are also working with law enforcement agencies and other businesses, to try to stop the kind of fraud described above.
If the above fact pattern describes your experience, and you have either sent money via Western Union or been asked to send money via Western Union, please report this matter to Western Union. See information at the beginning of the Appendix to this letter. There are other resources listed in the attached Appendix which contain further information about Internet shopping frauds; some have information for filing fraud reports with appropriate agencies.
We are sorry that you have been targeted in this scam, and we regret that DHL cannot be responsible for any loss you may have experienced.
Sincerely
On Behalf of DHL
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APPENDIX: INFORMATION AND REPORTING ON INTERNET FRAUD:
WESTERN UNION
Tel: +1-800-634-1311; this number is toll-free for US-origin calls; international dial rates are charged for calls from outside the US; ask for "Fraud reporting" and reference "DHL Internet scam".
E-mail:
[email protected]; include ?DHL? in the subject line of the e-mail
USA
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI):
http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) - a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C):
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/auctions.htm
eBay:
www.ebay.com/help/confidence/isgw-fraud-ov.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/f-insurance.html
Privately run website with many links and resources on Internet frauds, scams and hoaxes
http://www.netscalped.com
UK
National High-Tech Crime Unit http://www.nhtcu.org/
Address: PO Box 10101, London E14 9NF
Tel: +44 870 241 0549
Fax: +44 870 241 5729
Email:
[email protected]
Internet Watch Foundation FAQs on online auctions and computer crime
http://www.iwf.org.uk/faqs/online_auctions.shtml
London Metropolitan Police
http://www.met.police.uk/computercrime/index.htm
Computer Crime Unit telephone +44 (0)207 230 1177
British Government ?Consumer Gateway? information on e-shopping
http://www.consumer.gov.uk/consumer_web/e-shopping.htm
British Government site on e-tailing
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/etailing00.htm
UK eBay advice on buying safely
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre/buying_safely.html
CANADA
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Fraud Scams Alert
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/scams_e.htm
Canadian Anti-Fraud Call Centre
http://www.phonebusters.com/
Canada eBay fraud prevention advice
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/community/fpp.html
AUSTRALIA
Australian Federal Police
http://www.afp.gov.au/page.asp?ref=/Crime/E-Crime/
and the Australian High Tech Crime Centre
http://www.ahtcc.gov.au/
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/142
Tel: +61 1300 302 502
Australian Scamwatch
http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/scams/scams.asp
New South Wales Police - Links to all Australian states? police crimestopper sites
http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/crimestoppers/links.cfm
Tel:
New South Wales +61 2 9339 0277
Queensland +61 7 3364 6464
Victoria +61 3 9247 6666
South Australia +61 8 8207 5000
Western Australia +61 8 9222 1111
Tasmania +61 3 6230 2111
Queensland Police Service
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/pr/program/eCrime/auction_fraud.shtml
Australia eBay Safe Trading Overview
http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/confidence/overview.html
GERMANY
Germany eBay complaint centre
[email protected]
Contact your local police station and consider bringing a charge against the fraudulent seller.
Bitte wenden Sie sich an Ihre lokale Polizeidienststelle und erstatten Sie gegebenenfalls Strafanzeige.