receiving many letters from Africa asking to be a carrier for money how do I stop this e-mail?

Question

letters are from nigeria asking to be a 2nd party in money handling these e-mails I am recieving sound a little weird.how can these e-mails be stopped and what can I do to stop them they are very annoying

Answer 1

About the only way to stop these is to use an email filtering system. Some Spam filters still let these through. However there are several services you can use where you limit only those email addresses that you want to allow through.

Answer 2

This is a very common and subtle confidence trick emanating mainly from Nigeria. The sender claims to be some sort of government official who has been appropriated a large sum of money to complete a project. He claims that after the project was completed he is left with an enormous amount of money that has already been sanctioned by government and which he wishes to transfer abroad and will pay a good percentage to someone with a bank account to do so. he will then ask for your bank account details to where the money can be transferred and probably ask you to send a sum of money to his account 'to test the system'. If you tell him your details your bank account will be emptied in a few days and if you send money you'll never hear from him again.

Whatever you do please do not reply to this person AT ALL. Print the email and take it to the police. They are aware of this scam and know how to deal with it.
As far as stopping them is concerned you could change your email address or put a block on them.

Most of these emails and letters come from Nigeria, a country that is rife with corruption, as are many third world countries in Africa, Asia, S America and the East. Do not enter into any kind of correspondence or be tempted by, apparently, lucrative offers. Also don't forget that even if the guy was telling the truth ... it's still theft.

Answer 3

Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.

However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.

1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!

2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.

3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.
You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.

4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscroupoulios websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.

5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam.

Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!

Answer 4

I was bothered with the same stuff. It was always that someone had died and didn't have any family or next of kin and wanted me to be a next of kin and that they would get a percentage and I would get a large percentage of it and so on. I ignored it alot, but at one time I emailed the FBI about it and they emailed me back saying to ignore it that it was some type of scam. Like the saying goes, if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is!

Answer 5

Here is a site that will give you tons of Info on this scam and many more. I think some of the replies some people have made are very funny.

http://www.fraudaid.com/

There are two sites for you to report these scams. The first is the FBI Internet Crimes Reporting site here:

http://www.ic3.gov/

Next is the FTC:

https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

Answer 6

i could not inform you the way many e mail i'm getting from Africa, and different international places over seas inquiring for money or preserving they'll supply me money if I deliver this a lot. it is only a scam overlook about them!

Answer 7

If you're using Yahoo email, click on the "This is spam" button. It will automatically add the sender's email to your blocked list (I think you can block up to 500 addresses.) You can also click on the "Options" button to set up the Yahoo spam filters.

Answer 8

Also very important, in addition to SPAM blocking, NEVER REPLY TO THESE EMAILS. That is how they know they located a valid email address!

Answer 9

click the checkbox next to it and click on spam and you will never see it again unless they use a different email address or a variant of that email address.

Answer 10

block the sender.

Tell them you will call the FBI if they contact you again.