Reporting Scammers?

Someone has attempted to scam me.
Basically they wanted to buy a piece of jewellery of me and wanted it sent to Nigeria (rightly or wrongly that sent off alarm bells straight away). Anyway they ask for me send it via DHL so I went on their website and got a quote for $211 which was 4 times the cost of the jewellery so I also got a quote off nzpost for $17. I told the person this and still they said they wanted it sent by DHL. So I phoned DHL to check the quote etc and the lady told me that these people have been scamming by getting people to send goods saying they will transfer money and then not paying. So I thought that's a bit odd who would send good without getting the money first?
Anyway I didn't want to just assume this person was scamming me so I proceeded and gave them my details for payment and the total cost etc. Well 2 mins later I get an e-mail from "bank of america" saying that $300 US has been transferred to my account, this is odd as this is even more than the cost of the jewellery and the postage. Anyway in the print below the transfer statement is a statement saying that the transfer will happen once they have the tracking number. This statement is not even written in correct English and has a multitude of spelling mistakes. Then a second e-mail comes through again supposedly by the bank saying the same thing.
The actual statement looks real so I can understand why people have been caught out if they haven't looked at it properly.
So I e-mailed the person and said sorry I don't ever post goods until funds have cleared in my account, to which they tried again to get me to post the item. So I wrote a less nice e-mail telling them I knew they were trying to scam me and to take a hike and yet again they have just e-mailed so I have told them that I have blocked their e-mail account and reported them. Trouble is I actually don't know who to report it to, and if DHL already know about the scam wouldn't they have reported it?
So anyway should I tell the cops? or the consumer people? or who?????

I'd say both, and make an official statement to DHL so they have to act on it at their end.

Altho the world of the internet is incredibly murky and there aren't many avenues for recompense if you do get scammed, it's important to publicise these things as much as possible to stop other people being caught in the same scams.

Good on you for being onto it tho!

As awful as it sounds, I wouldn't trust any internet inquires from Nigeria,there have been so many scams associated with there lately!

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Maya wrote: Wouldn't Richard Branson's son fly Virgin?

Oh no....apparently he liked us better! And had changed his name. And age. pfffffft

kasbee wrote: There must be alot of this scamming stuff going around cause the other day i got a letter in the mail saying that " A client of mine who was killed in a car accident in March 2005, happens to share the last name as me. The letter never mentions my name at all or my surname. It goes on to say that there is $22 million waiting there for me. I get 50% and this David Thomson Jr (who sent me the letter) gets 50%. It tells me to get in touch with him thru fax or email. He has given me a phone number and 2 emails address. The funny thing is my BIL got one and our boss's friend got one aswell, wat a crock of sh*t. Dont really think theres much i can do about it, but have just kept the letter.

I was getting these once a week for a while! The funny thing was I was supposed to believe we were related because we have the same FIRST name!!!