Everyday I get email from around the world from ***@yahoo.com/**. They are offering me millions of dollar, pound, gold, stock and God know what what else. Oh yes, I have won a lottery in some country. The email is come through yahoo.com. Isn't there some way that you can monitor these scams?
William Wynne
booksbywilly@charter.net
2006-09-22 06:43:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Just because the return address shows xxx@yahoo.com does not mean that it came from there. You can go to your mail program and put any return address you wish and many people do use phony ones especially when posting to newsgroups.
I noticed that you posted your real address in your question. You should never do that because there are robot programs searching the web for addresses.
2006-09-22 06:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands or tens of thousands of these things. You could never possibly monitor them all. All you need to do is to recognize them for what they are.
If you have the time or inclination to play with them and any of them wants to send you a check or money order by fedEx, then make sure you get them to do that. It costs them money every time they FedEx a letter someplace (about $49 from Nigeria to the US) so the more often they get scammed this way the better.
2006-09-24 19:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically don't open jack. Remember the saying. If it sounds too good to be true, then it probubly is. Besides how are you going to be winning all of these things if you ahve not even entered yourself into anything LOL And just be careful this is how alot of foolish people get identitiy theft. The nice thing about yahoo tho, is that it does scann all of it's incoming and out going mail. So the possibility of at least getting some sort of virus is very low. But yea just delete that crap if you don't know who it is. =)
2006-09-22 13:46:32 · answer #3 · answered by muzikman124805 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been getting the same kinds of emails they have even went as far as sending me a check for 3,000.00 to deposit and then send back the cash to claim my prize...I have reported these people to yahoo numerous times, I called the bank the check was issued from and sent them copies of the check and their were insufficient funds in the account and the check was fraudulent. I saw something on television about these scammers just don't rely to them, and don't send them any money. Good Luck!
2006-09-22 13:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by YD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have to ask, YES!!!!!
If they say anything about making MONEY--YES!!!!
Please disconnect your internet for your own protection. It is about half scams and if you are going to ask questions like this it really isn't safe for you to be here. Email, if you don't know the person is a scam. No if, ands or buts... It is a SCAM.
Or you could just save the step and send me your money right now.
2006-09-22 13:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Report it to Yahoo. I get a lot of these too, usually from people in some west African country. Asking for money, because of "some kind of revolution",or something.
If Yahoo gets enough complaints, maybe they will stop this kind of scam.
2006-09-22 13:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by robert2020 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
forward the messages to abuse@yahoo.com. Be sure to include all of the message headers so Yahoo! can determine if the account is being spoofed or not.
2006-09-22 13:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by dontknow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark them as scam
2006-09-22 13:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn_small 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get these all de time..simply mark as spam , ignore nd delete...
2006-09-23 11:00:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've made millions replying to these people, it's all true..
2006-09-22 13:46:07 · answer #10 · answered by snoogans 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋