How can I make these "fake" lotto winnings, STOP...? I get them from all over. Several each day.Please advice

Question

It is VERY annowing getting the same (you have just won the lotto).. From differant Countries........

Answer 1

Go to tucows.com or download.com and find an anti-spam plugin for your email client.

Answer 2

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 spam 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 unscrupulous 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. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

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 3

If they are all coming from the same domain, you can add the domain name to the block sender list. Howere, if you are opening these emails....

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road.

However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.

http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/

There is also a Yahoo page dedicated to the 419 Fraud

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110240.html

Answer 4

not so easily done.
if you ask each one to remove you from their list, that only makes it worse. They will add you to other lists, and sell the lists to other companies.

Best option, use a junk mail filter, or a spam filter and have the messages deleted immediately.

you can use spamcop to report them, but its a lot of work for each one to be reported.

Answer 5

You really can't...most of them are even sent from bogus email addresses. It's all a scam...the only thing to do it just keep deleting them, or mark them as spam.