Behind the Badge 3/31/06

On Behind the Badge, we enjoyed a visit from Officer Dave Zittlow of the Fond du Lac Police Department with some very important information about computer oriented scams and frauds. I asked Officer Zittlow to forward to me some information regarding websites that he mentioned on the program, and below is his reply. Check it out.......it could save you, or someone you love, a lot of money and/or headaches. Thanks for listening.

Show Notes from Behind the Badge March 31, 2006
Special Guest:
Officer Dave Zittlow – Computer Crimes Specialist
Fond du Lac City Police Department
920-322-3713
e-mail: www.fdlpolice.com/email.htm


Computer Crimes Trends:
We have been seeing a lot of fraudulent documents being sent from overseas these include Wal-Mart money orders and United States Postal Money Orders. If you think that you received a counterfeit money order go to the place that so called issued the money order. They will be able to immediately verify the authenticity.

Below is a link to verify postal money orders:
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/moalert.htm

If you think you are getting phishing e-mails or fraud e-mails you can go to the below sites to verify if they have been seen before and are indeed frauds.
www.snopes.com
www.hoax-slayer.com

Examples of the Nigerian Fraud Letters and bogus lottery letters can be found below:
www.potifos.com/fraud
Illegal Lottery and fraud by mail can be found at:
www.usps.com/postalinspectors

Security Announcements on e-bay fraud can be found at:
www.ebay.com/securitycenter

To keep updated with the latest frauds and crimes in the Fond du Lac area please subscribe to the Police Departments Newsletter at:
http://newsletter.fdlpolice.com/