Many a times, I have been receiving mail from unknown people who are totally fraud and each one comes up with a new story, asking me to provide my personal details, as they would like to transfer their money in my account and in return they would give me some commission. To trap them on numerous occassions, I have replied to their mail, asking them to give me details, so that I could go ahead. Now, my only interest is how to track down these people and stop them from harrasing me or others. I have tried blocking their addresses but each time they come up with a new ID, so very difficult to keep a track.
2006-08-14 22:50:51 · 11 answers · asked by YASMIN D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I already made a tutorial about this.
read my post at http://coldpctips.blogspot.com/
2006-08-14 22:54:18 · answer #1 · answered by tk2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off they did not get your address from pulling it out of a hat. You have provided it, also by replying you are just telling them that you exist and you are for real. These are Nigerian 911 Scams, just delete them or use a good spam protection like ChoiceMail which is FREE and works great!
http://www.choicemail.com
You can also forward the message to Phone Busters and they are tracking them down, best you leave it to the pro's to do the tracking and charging. FRAUD
RECOGNIZE IT.
REPORT IT.
STOP IT.
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2006-08-15 05:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEVER ANSWER THESE EMAILS.
It is a quite famous Nigerian group who use social engineering to get you to respond to them. Once you respond they know that you `exist` and they will continue to write to you. There is no way for you to track down the people, there is whole countries trying to beat down the group at the moment. Ignore any mails from unknowns and let them waste your time on you until they give up, just don't ANSWER.
2006-08-14 22:59:54 · answer #3 · answered by ycareabout2moro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing can be done with these type of emails, they keep getting,
changing email address is not adviced, but it can work. but once you open these type of emails the sender will get confirmation that the email was opened, and your email address is worth selling.]
they then sell email address for 1cent 1 email.
Its a non stopping business, tracking and stopping is not possible.
In a research by US firm found 80% of emails are spam or phishing.
So chills, take it easy or u can report it as spam so that more and more spams from a ISP (internet service provider), he will be added to email servers Black list.
Thats how something can be done.
2006-08-14 23:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by Suri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like if you win $ 1million and the person/bank says your email address was used as a draw.
2006-08-14 23:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
frauds
either block them
or give them fake details for fun
like im
mr. jack meoff
some gay **** site address and ph numbers
2006-08-14 22:56:59 · answer #6 · answered by phill281 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Google.com and search for:
"Report Fraud"
Report the sender to your ISP. You may as well call the ISP of the senders. And call your ISP.
2006-08-14 22:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by TS2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I don't know them then I don't open the email it's that simple.
2006-08-14 22:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happened even to me.
But,I blocked them.
Just give them scoldin........
2006-08-14 23:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by Nick Carter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just mail me his/her addreses i will block it.
harry_potter177107@yahoo.co.in
2006-08-14 23:22:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋