How do the operators of an e-mail fraud from India get my mail id?

Question

I'm an Aussie and haven't ever gone to India.I get loads of junk, but this one beat it all. I tried blocking it, reporting as spam, but they somehow finds a way to keep sending me the same mail asking me to put my money in a scheme called LIS DEEPASTHAMBHAM PROJECT. Indian, it says. Can I sue the promoters for filling my inbox with junk? Or should I play along and try my luck? By the way, how can I remit payment to India?

Answer 1

Email harvesting is big business everywhere and we all suffer from it. You are no different

Answer 2

Don't even think about doing it, unless you are so rich that you don't mind losing money. The way that they keep sending you Emails is they just use a different Email address to send you the messages. How they find your Email address is simple, all they have to do is go to the member directory and type in any name or a partial name and they get a whole list of people or they could be purchasing an Email list from a company.(there are many sites that you may have signed up as a member or if you have bought something online) they sell your information to companies that in turn sell lists in bulk. It is very simple to get a persons Email address, you may consider removing yourself from any directories which you may be listed in, such as the Yahoo directory and when you join a site or make a purchase, be sure that you read their privacy policy to find out what could potentially happen to your personal information.

Answer 3

Web bots harvest e mail addresses from all sorts of sites, and then the addresses are sold in lists. You than get all the spam!


The are all scams. If you want to try your luck, I have a better plan for you. Make out a check (cheque if that is the proper spelling in OZ) for the amount you were going to risk, and send it to your local cancer research group (in the US it would be the American Cancer society). If your donation leads to a breakthrough, not only are you a winner, the world is a better place)

Answer 4

there is software that can crawl the web seeking mail address and mail ID's, not much you can do except never open the mail or respond to then and after a while you ID will be deleted from their system as being inactive or as a dead address

Answer 5

I was quite keen when i saw 200% returns but when i did a search on the website, i saw this link www.lisdsp.org - which says the whole scheme is illegal.

Answer 6

they r tricky.