An appeal for financial support. Please help us take The Internet Fraud Advisory Group is a constituted voluntary group, based in Britain. For several years we have been providing a free service designed to help people avoid becoming victims of the 419 advance fee fraud criminals. There are thousands of these criminals prowling the Web and every day we receive more and more mail from actual and potential victims. Over the years, it has become obvious that fraud victims can expect little or no help from the police or the companies used by the criminals in the commission of these crimes (banks, money transfer agencies, Internet service providers etc). The voluntary sector has taken the lead in education and support, but lack of resources is now proving a limitation. We will continue to provide a free advisory service but the huge increase in demand makes it necessary to ask those who are able to consider making a financial donation to the Group. We need to train and pay staff to help us deal with the surge in Internet fraud. We need to be able to lobby for new legislation. We intend to apply to the UK Charity Commission for formal registration as a charity but before we can do this we have to show an income from donations of five thousand UK pounds. If you feel you can help with a donation, of any amount, you can use PayPal:
You could also make a transfer direct to the Group's bank account. Please mail me to ask for the Group's UK bank account details. Thanks for your support, John Weston (Chairman, IFA Group) 2008. A note to our reporting agents around the world. We will include a link to this page in much of our outgoing mail for the time being. Please be aware that we already greatly appreciate your help and are not specifically seeking a donation from you. Some of you will know about our plans to apply for charitable status, others may find the news of interest and have suggestions for improving the service once we can attract funding. A note to companies. Many of the fraud criminals will pretend to be mailing you from Britain. Since we are based in the United Kingdom we can offer an informed opinion on suspect e-mail approaches (and the forged documents you may receive). We have been able to save many companies from losing money to the fraudsters. If you represent one of these companies, please ask your directors to consider a donation.
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