We need both the body text and the complete mail headers in order to investigate fraud mail.  Please see the notes on revealing full mail headers below.  N.B. Please DO NOT send graphics as attachments unless by prior arrangement. The fraudsters will often send badly forged certificates and identity documents. These are not useful.

Please use a meaningful, short phrase in your "subject" line and make sure this relates to the body of your message. If you leave the "subject" line blank, or just write "Hi" your mail is likely to be deleted. Because of the spammers we have removed all "mailto" links within the site but new visitors should be able to use this link to get in touch: John Weston . If  this does not launch your mailer with the address filled out, write to john(at)data-wales.co.uk

It would be helpful to know how you found the Fraud Advisory pages. Did you search the Web for a name, for example?

Please also consider forwarding 419 advance fee fraud emails to the Metropolitan Police in the UK: fraud.alert@met.police.uk . The police also require full mail headers to be included.

MAIL HEADERS. You will not normally see full headers when you read your mail but these are important in investigating Internet fraud.

Windows Live mail:
1. Select the message that you want to view the header information.
2. Click the right button of your mouse and select "Properties".
3. Click on the "Details" tab.
4. Click "Message Source..." .
5. A new windows will open with the header information of the e-mail. 

Microsoft Outlook Express for Windows: Right click on the message and select Properties. Choose the Details tab and select the Message Source Button. Copy the headers and send them along with the body of the email.

Microsoft Outlook: Click the View menu and select Options. You should see a pop up window "Message options" or similar. Notice the box called Internet headers near the bottom of the window. This box contains the full headers. To extract the contents, put your mouse pointer in the box and right-click then choose Select All. All the text in the box will then be highlighted.

Right-click in the box again and this time choose Copy to copy the selected contents to the clipboard. You can then paste the full headers to an email you may be forwarding. .

Netscape Messenger 4.7 - 6: Open the email; go to the view menu; pull the 'Headers' menu over and click on 'all'. Highlight the message and headers displayed in the email and copy them into the email you send to us.

Netscape Messenger 6.2 and higher: Go to Netscape Messenger Inbox. Select View - Headers - All. Highlight the message and headers displayed in the email and copy them into the email you send to us.

Incredimail: In your mail program double click the email you would like to view, when it is open click on the FILE menu and choose PROPERTIES. When in the properties menu click on the DETAILS tab to view the Full Headers .

Pegasus: Users of the excellent Pegasus for Windows will probably not need me to remind them of the Raw View tab and the option to include headers in the Reply and Forward dialogues.

WEB MAIL HEADERS

Yahoo! Mail:
1. Open the message in question.
2. In the top-right corner of the message, click the link/pull-down menu "Standard Header."
3. Select "Full Header". A pop-up window will appear with complete message headers.
4. Copy the contents of that entire screen
5. Click "Forward" on the message in question.
6. Paste the copied full headers into the body of the message above the actual email message.

Yahoo! Mail Classic:
1. Open the message in question.
2. In the bottom-right corner of the message, click the link "Full Headers."
3. The screen will refresh and will display the complete headers above the message itself.
4. Copy the entire Full Header section.
5. Click "Forward".
6. Paste the entire Full Headers into the body of the message above the actual email message.

Hotmail: First, configure your options: On the upper right "Options | Help" links, click on "Options." Click on the "Mail Display Settings" link, find the item "Message Headers." Choose "Advanced" and click the "OK" button. 

t-onlin.de: Öffnen Sie Ihr e-mail-programm von t-online, gehen Sie zu ‘Einstellungen’, ‘e-mail-software einstellen’, ‘erweitert’: unter ‘e-mails lesen’ dann ‘alle zusätzlichen Informationen (Kopfzeilen/Header) anzeigen.