I got another of those 'please let me put XXmillion in your account and pay you a fortune for the innconvenience' emails, where they will try to fleece me for every penny I have. Now, obviously I am not falling for it, but is there anything I can do to stop this particular one? For example, he is using a Yahoo mail account, how would I report that to Yahoo? Anything else I can do to really mess his plans up?
2006-12-11 00:11:58 · 9 answers · asked by lala land 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Just report it as spam and forget about it.
2006-12-11 00:14:17 · answer #1 · answered by Velouria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have the time, you can report it to the email service that he is using, for this case Yahoo. But, what else can Yahoo do ? Close the account. Then, he just open another account and proceed.
It is simply nothing much we can do, unless there is some big coordination between major sites to track down those guys, and hopefully send them to jail for conning.
Ignore them is the best.
I have been feedback to paypal about scam that ask me to update my account. But I never receive any reply from paypal. I wonder if they care about this.
Educate yourself about this issue will be the best defense.
If all won't fail into this trick, they will just die off (hopefully :) , some trick have been around for years and still people fall into it )
2006-12-11 00:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant stop spam altogether but you can significantly reduce it
Tips to Help You Reduce or Stop Spam
1. Use a separate email address when you post messages to any public forum, such as newsgroups and mailing lists.
2 Beware of any free service, or signing up for every free newsletter without checking the T&C's
3. Consider acquiring multiple email addresses for different purposes. This helps you to identify different sources and senders
3. use 'disposable' email addresses
http://email.about.com/library/weekly/aa072002a.htm
4. Remove your email address from your website.
Address-harvesting robots will spider your site and extract them.
5. Filter your email.
http://email.about.com/cs/spamfiltering/
If you still get a lot of spam then report the abuse to DMOZ and other organisations
I hope this helps
2006-12-11 00:28:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just ignore those mails. Thats the only solution available now. If one guy is sending you such mails then you can take pain to lodge a complaint, but here there are million job less guys into these type of scams.
Just ignore those mails and concenterate on your day today work.
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2006-12-11 00:35:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old Nigerian Scam, I used to send loads of jokes to their email addresses, It obviously didn't make any difference but it made me feel better!!
2006-12-11 00:22:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you do do not download anything to do with this!Its called phishing and is an spoof web page by hackers.Just delete it and report it .
2006-12-11 01:22:53 · answer #6 · answered by ardha11iday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billions are stolen by these clever fraudsters, by people giving their bank details. Greed wins. Don't be fooled and report.
2006-12-11 00:23:57 · answer #7 · answered by I'm Sparticus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people are small-time idiots who prey on other small-time idiots. Ignoring them is basically the only way... don't even read the email.
2006-12-11 00:16:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as above
2006-12-11 02:03:41 · answer #9 · answered by dream theatre 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋