A last attempt

The Scammer that tried to con me into cashing the checks he sent me made his final attempt today to solicit me. This is what he said:

Greetings to you,
I don't know what you are up to,with your sudden silence over the payment you received from our client,i mailed you several times but you never reply back,ifyou know that you are not ready to work you shouldn't have given down your details to the company and am sure you are aware of the fact that you can never abscond with the company's funds and if your intention is to made away with the company's fund,you will face the penalty and will be sue to court. So i will urge you to get back to me within 48 hours if only you don't want to face the penalty,your response is needed urgently concerning this payment and I need you to get back to me as soon as possible.I will await your urgent response within 48 hours or else your details will be forward to the FBI and I can bet it.

Can you believe this guy. I informed him that I have contacted several internet fraud Organizations, and Starlight Children's Foundation concerning his recent activity. But as you can see, the grammar inconsistencies and spelling errors were enough to know English was not this person's first language. A bit suspicious for a founder of a british charity.

Scammers are usually Cowards.
My first question to John Weston, Moderator for the internet fraud advisory group Data Wales, was whether or not these individuals are prone to tracking people down and harassing them physically. His answer was a resounding no. These scammers will try to remain as anonymous as possible. All interaction they have with the internet is done so at coffee shops and internet cafe's keeping their connection as "off-the-grid" as possible. Once they decide your no longer an easy target, they cut all contact and move on to the next person.

So you caught em with your awesome tech fu right?
Through the course of this encounter, the techniques I've used have not yielded enough information to track down this Scammer. In addition to email, I've also received text messages from a phoney number which I cannot trace or track.

Where is the justice then?
You can now see how these individuals have an easy time convincing others to unwittingly commit crime for them and remain annonymous enough to move to a new location and start over. Internet Fraud Organizations are unable to rely on the evidence collected from just one incident. Investigators will look for patterns amoungst multiple incidents and coordinate their efforts with other agentcies to determine the best course of action. The more incidents they have on record the closer they get to catching the culprit. Unfortunately, the damage these criminals leave behind cannot be undone.