Ask the Wisconsin Homeland Security Advisor

"I have been recieving emails from foreigners that ask for my help in moving large sums of monies out of their countries.  What should I do?"  

The e-mails you are receiving are part of a money scam that is being conducted constantly across the world. In these scams, the sender typically wants you to make some kind of money deposit or provide some personal banking information for them to exploit. DO NOT respond to any of these e-mails for your own fiscal protection. If you respond in any manner, they realize that your e-mail account is active and they will continue to bother you.  There is no way for US based law enforcement to conduct investigations into the notes since they originate from other countries where we have no jurisdictional authority. I would recommend that you obtain some kind of software that blocks spam; this should help reduce the number of these e-mails you are receiving.

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