Make Money Fast and Get Into Jail Quick
If you are annoyed by internet posttings
for making money fast, you can now report them to the IRS.
The following was posted on bionet.announce:
From: afried@bellatlantic.net (Andrew Fried)
Newsgroups: bionet.announce
Subject: Reporting MMF to the IRS [long]
Date: 16 Mar 1997 21:32:33 -0800
Organization: Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions
Message-ID: <5gil1h$d8r@net.bio.net>
Reply-To: Inspector Andrew Fried
NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net
Keywords: IRS,MMF,make money fast,pyramid,chain letter,spam
[Note from the moderator - I'm passing this on from
news.admin.announce - D.K.]
Over the past six months, my email address has appeared in the "fraud
killer list", a list of agency contacts used to report potential tax
fraud violations by the "make money fast" (MMF) Usenet spammers. Since
complaints such as those don't fall under my specific area of
jurisdiction, I have been manually forwarding all such messages to the
appropriate department within my agency.
In order to facilitate routing complaints to the IRS via email, I have
established two special mailboxes. Email sent to those addresses will
be automatically forwarded to the correct organizations within the
Service. This will assure faster delivery and reduce congestion on
my personal email account. The addresses are as follows:
net-abuse@nocs.insp.irs.gov
Use this address to report make money fast (MMF) schemes. Mail sent to
this address will be forwarded to the Criminal Investigation Division
(CID) for appropriate action.
hotline@nocs.insp.irs.gov
Mail sent to this address will be forwarded to Internal Security
(Inspection), the IRS's "internal affairs" type organization. Internal
Security is responsible for investigating criminal acts which attempt to
corrupt our tax system. Internal Security is also responsible for the
protection of all Service employees. Use this address to report
attempted bribery of IRS employees, conspiracy to defraud the tax
system, threats against the IRS or IRS employees or any other suspected
criminal acts affecting the integrity of our tax system. Please don't
forward the infamous "IRS Abuse" reports here.
Reports of tax fraud should be sent directly to your regional IRS
Service Center; there is currently no Internet email address for
reporting those suspected offenses.
Please distribute this message to newsgroup moderators and members of
your newsgroups. Should you have any other non-tax related questions,
feel free to write to me directly at:
afried@nocs.insp.irs.gov
--
Inspector Andrew Fried IRS Internal Security
Voice: (202) 622-3535 1111 Constitution Ave, NW
Fax: (202) 622-8681 Washington, DC 20224
--
Andrew Fried
afried@bellatlantic.net
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