SUCKER lists

Anyone who has fallen victim to an email or a snail-mail con are likely to feature on so-called 'sucker-lists.' Fraudsters sell and swap these lists when targeting people in various scams. The Serious Organised Crime Agency in the UK recently warned that hundreds of thousands of people could be on the lists and that there appears to be an upsurge in the scams. Once a person replies they get more and more letters some of which are dressed up as legal documents. Read here about one scam broken up by SOCA last April that could have netted €35 million for the fraudsters.