>
> William,
>
> Best of luck to you in your new task force.
Thanks for the wishes.
I do know that there are a lot more cyber crimes out there, but we
remain with our focus, as it is more then enough for us to deal
with.
That is understood. My intent with the formation of this Task Force
is to centralize efforts for anyone who might have a problem in the
specific areas I mentioned. I have noticed throughout the internet
many groups and forums dedicated to Romance-Scams and the key here
is they are scattered all over the place. What is needed is
something like a Web-Ring where a large group of victims from all
over the internet to connect up in one central clearinghouse. We were actually the very first group on the net that dealt with Romance Scams exclusively. The groups that you find scattered all over the net dealing with this are mostly people who started here and then decided they had different agendas or that they could fight this more affectively so they went off on their own. My only problem to being linked to some of the other groups is that I do not always believe in their tactics or in the manner in which they handle things.
This is also true of the other areas I mentioned.
>
> One of the biggest problems with government and law enforcement
being lax is the fact that they are not very well informed about the
romance scams.
One of the secrets I will reveal here to some extent, is that I am a
civilian contractor for a few government agencies dealing with cyber
issues. Legal restraints prohibit me from being more specific. My
internal workings with these agencys have pointed out their
limitations. Well if you can get them to listen and do more that is marvelous.
After this group was started and we began to grow, my FBI contact
admitted to me that they had absolutely no idea how widespread this
problem was. So how can we expect any agencies to do anything about
this if they do not really know about it. The FBI takes the reports
and then sends the victims to us, cause they are not sure what to do
to help them.
This is partly correct. The other problem is that of priority. Right
now most of the agency assets are being diverted to terrorism. The
investigation of civilian offenses such as this get put on the back
burner and are often passed on to groups such as toogoodtobetrue. And part of that reason is that they do not know or want to spend the time to figure out that there are connections in these scams that need to be investigated more throughly.
In the past 10 months I can not tell you the number ofconversations that I have had with officials who have told me that
they had no idea this was going on.
That is true but again the issue falls back to that of priority and
funding.
>
> As far as having a more organized effort to combat that, my hat is
off to you if you alone can accomplish this. Again, I have been
here since day one. Read the messages and you will see how many
times I have begged for people to get involved. There are letters
in the files section that we have asked people to send out. We have
begged for volunteers to do interviews. Yet out of the 5,000 +
people who have passed through these doors we have only a handful on
the list. We ask for the amounts that people have been scammed out
of.
All I can do is give this my best shot. One thing that is going to
help is that I am working in areas where the harm is far more direct
that the scams here. By mixing the various groups together, they can
learn from each other and perhaps beciome more active. We do things here a certain way, and there are other groups that do them quite differently. I honestly do not think that you are going to get everyone to play together from the different groups.
We have only around 200 people who have reported. We have flyers
in the files that people can print out and pass around. There are
only a handful of people who have done so.
I do admit that I am a newcomer here and I will be studying your
group more closely. I came here in the midst of a current
investigation I am doing on the behalf of a victim.
>
> I am not trying to discourage your efforts when it comes to
battling these romance scams, I am just trying to prepare you ahead
of time for the fight you are facing. The Mod Squad and I fight
this every day. It is not a lack of organization and not trying.
What I would like to do is get the more active of you here to be
ready to help whatever way you can. I also will be able to
reciprocate by spreading the word about this forum. Personally I don't mind helping out, but to be honest, I am already overwhelmed with the many behind the scenes projects that I have going on with this group.
It is the fact that we can not do this alone, and there is a huge
lack of participation among the victims of this crime. The Mod Squad
is constantly looking for ways to get the word out about scams and
educate people so they do not fall victim. Most of the time we run
up against a brick wall.
>
> So once again, if you alone can find a solution to battle this
problem and to help stop it then my hat is off to you, and you will
have my utmost gratitude and respect. I just want you to know the
truth of what we have faced.
Barb: Like I said, I am in the earliest stages of formulating this
concept. Only time will tell where it will go. I do hope that you do well in your endeavours.
m2kfl
>
> From: murt2k
> To: romancescams@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:38 PM
> Subject: [romancescams] THE VICTIMS ANTI-CYBERCRIME TASK FORCE
>
>
> Recent events has promped me to form The Victim's Anti-
Cybercrimes
> Task force to combat the many forms of cyber-crime that internet
> users are subjected to.
>
> This organisation will be dedicated to fighting all forms of
Cyber-
> Crimes including Romance, scams, cash scams, Preditor crimes,
Child
> Porn and any and all crimes committed in cyberspace.
>
> I need a number of things. The first and most important is
interest.
> In the past I have formed organisations and groups only to see
them
> fade due to a lack of interest or support. I hope this does not
> happin here. This is too important an issue to ignore. Law
> enforcement has been lax and too bureaucratic in fighting this
> problem and the public has not had the tools up to now to combat
> this problem.
>
> In reading this forum, I have seen a lot of activity from users
in
> fighting the various scammers here. There needs to be a broader
and
> more organized effort along these lines.
>
> This post is at the earliest stage of this formation. I am going
to
> need tons of advice from all here as how to procead.
>
> The advice starts on how to make this a legal NPO as well as the
> help of a pro-bono legal advisor to keep things legitimate. I
can be
> reached both here and at
> VACTF@... or at the e-mail address on this post.
> William K Murtaugh
> Founder
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/message/45888
1 comment:
One thing that is important to point out about this blog is that the author has never identified herself in the three years this blog has existed. I have never hidden my name nor have I ever shied away from answering the accusations against me.
It must be pointed out that one Deric James Lostutter will have been sentenced on March 8th 2017 for doing the same thing on the internet that has been done to me for the past 9 years. He was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse act by hacking into an internet account and altering the contents of it in much the same manner that I claim was done to me over the years. Also, a blogger from Atlanta was exposed by a prominent Florida atty for creating hundreds of fake twitter accounts and attacking people anonymously with fake narratives ( now known as fake news) once again showing how easy it is to smear someone behind closed doors. I do not hide but my critics do. Take that into account when judging the contents of this blog.
Also not that in the years long campaign against me that there has never been any kind of civil or criminal action taken against me.
That should speak volumes.
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