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If you think people who fall for scam letters are stupid -

think again!

Criminals worldwide are sending millions of scam letters into the UK and hunting down the most vulnerable members of our society including the over trusting, bereaved, superstitious, socially isolated, depressed and those with age related declining mental health and dementia.

Scam mail is designed to shut down the normal thought process and dazzle the mind. A chronic scam victim is someone who is repeatedly taken in by scams (read Jessica's Story) they can only focus on the fictitious prizes, not the money they are sending to claim them. They do not understand modern technology or how it allows criminals to mass-produce mail and make it look like important and personally written correspondence. After replying to the first 'tempter' letter victims’ names are put on what criminals call 'suckers' lists. They sell these lists to other scammers all over the world. Bogus Lottery officials, solicitors, bankers, clairvoyants and other fictional characters work together. They send out mail which forms a delusional world and becomes a chronic victim’s reality. Criminals also use the voice of authority, swear vulnerable victims to secrecy and make threats to snare those from a generation that was built on trust and obedience. Associated phone calls have worried some elderly people into transferring their life savings to criminals abroad.

Right Now, silent victims are receiving 30, 40, 50 or over 100 criminal letters a day. Hundreds of posties have contacted Think Jessica and told us “we can easily recognise when someone is being targeted, yet there is no system in place for us to sound the alarm" Since 2007 Think Jessica has been campaigning for a common sense solution; a system which allows posties to flag up victims like Jessica, thus enabling help to be sent out and mail to that address stopped, redirected and screened by a relative or trusted person.

22,000 victims replied to one scam mail shot in one day and sent £500,000!

20 pensioners in Cornwall collectively sent £350,000 to criminals who work in organised gangs!
5 victims of mail scams are known to have committed suicide!
One Criminal gang was estimated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to be making £35 million a year!
The vast majority of those targeted, cannot recognise themselves as victims, therefore they never report the crime!
Think Jessica can get up to 20 reports of serious cases a day, of those who have emptied their bank accounts and/or sold their homes to keep up with the scammers demands.
Dozens of Catalogues scams which operate from overseas including Vital Beauty, Vitamail, Fredrich Mueller, Deices Gourmandisis and Biotonic have been deceiving honest and trusting people for years. They guarantee a prize to those who order. The prize never arrives instead the victim gets bombarded with more false promises and phone calls. Some of those targeted, have spent over £40,000 on drastically over priced goods from the these fraudulent "companies"

Think Jessica "Silence of the Scams" posters are now on billboards across the UK.

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Silence is a Scammers Best Friend

Lieselotte Gerrard (84) commited suicide after ending up almost penniless chasing an international lottery scam. She was found dead at her flat in Bedford on January 15th 2010 after taking an overdose of pills. Mrs Gerrards stepson, Barry, tried to persuade her to give up the scams, but the pair fell out in June last year and did not speak again after that.

Det Sgt Baron said "Lieselotte wasted a huge amount of money chasing the lottery wins, that were never going to happen"

This is just some of the scam mail removed from Jessica's home. It was sent by criminals from all over the world including; The Netherlands, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Switzerland, USA, Singapore, Canada and Australia.