Need Help with Getting a Scammer to Give Up Address

I have just received a call from a scammer telling me that I won $2.5 million I just need to send him a WU to New Mexico. How can I get his real address so I can turn him in?

Welcome to Scamwarners Epok

I'm sorry to say it isn't that easy. The scammers know their business well and they know they can supply a fake address and still pick up the money, often with a fake name too.

He's probably located in Africa or the Far East and with the MTCN and the security question it allows him to override the place of pick up. They also sometimes have 'friendly' clerks they know.

Most online scammers are totally untraceable, though sometimes scambaiters can use mindgames to get info and sometimes a very dumb scammer doesn't know his business, but that's a rarity.

It was a shot in the dark. I received this call out of nowhere and I was hoping I could use the info that he did give me to mess with them since they wanted me to send the money to New Mexico. I would think that it falls under U.S. jurisdiction.

Interestingly, while the advance-fee lottery scams that start by email often originate in Africa or the middle east, the lottery scams that involve cold-calling Americans are often based in Jamaica.

It looks like we have a resurgence of this particular scam:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110307/NEWS01/303070091/Elderly-residents-warned-about-Jamaican-Lottery-Phone-Scam

I have the phone number that he called me from written down but I don't know how to trace the origin. I couldn't place his accent and I don't want to come across as racist but he sounded like he was black and he has a foreign accent. If I can't help to get him caught then using this example to teach my friends and family about this kind of thing will still make it worthwhile.

Hi Epok!
Google the number to see if you can trace it to a person or country. Then please post it here, so if someone else googles it they can know that it's a scam.

Or post it here anyway, and we'll research it.
Scammers are rarely caught as they tend to be in coubtries with poor law enforcement.