2007-08-23 09:41:57 · 7 answers · asked by tammy b 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
10 million dollars says it's a scam! But it probably is, so don't reply. Go to clarkhoward.com.
2007-08-23 09:50:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides snopes.com to check to see if it's a hoax (which it IS - sorry to say - even without looking at it I feel confident in telling you that) here is something you can do....now that you have opened it already. Click to "reply". DO NOT REPLY. Instead, check the "reply to" email address, copy and paste that into the search engine you use (e.g. Google) or copy and paste that into the URL. If you copy it into the URL you can click on the actual website that this email is supposed to be "representing". Another trick I learned with my excite.com email is that if I check the box next to the email, go to "BLOCK" I can easily see the REAL sending website. Follow the same process as above, and check the sending website APART from even having to OPEN the email.
Last but not least, NEVER OPEN AN EMAIL THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IT'S FROM.
I checked one to "BLOCK" the other day and it purported itself to be from an insurance company I am well acquainted with. It was A FRAUDULENT email. I called the insurance company and got an email address from them to send this fraudulent email to....let them deal with it!
Some emails will have a link to a "website look-a-like" ---- YOUR BANK for instance. FRAUD. They will ask you to enter personal information - including social security number, person PINS, etc. etc. etc. and they are "phishing" for your information so they can accomplish IDENTITY THEFT, and steal from your accounts!!!!
My own daughters have BOTH had emails come to them like that.
PayPal has had numerous email fraud schemes where theives have sent folks to a website that looks JUST LIKE the PayPal website...asking them to enter their personal information for updating purposes. LIES. THIEVES.
Like I said. DO NO EVEN OPEN AN EMAIL UNLESS YOU ARE POSITIVE OF ITS SOURCE AND THAT SOURCE IS KNOWN TO YOU.
2007-08-23 10:48:29 · answer #2 · answered by mgs4Real 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out www.419scams.com there's a list you can check to see known email scammers. This one is a scam, I have gotten this same email and researched it, that's how I know It's a scam. The names might be different but the scam is the same. You can also report it on this same website.
2007-08-23 11:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Allan C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like an email from Nigeria. You should report it to Yahoo Spam.
In addition to Snopes, you can find email hoaxes at Hoaxbusters -
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
and don't EVER send your bank account number to a stranger by email. They say they will deposit money into your account, but instead they will suck it dry.
2007-08-23 21:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by Theresa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with previous answers, probably a scam. Try putting key words into the search box on www.snopes.com.
2007-08-23 10:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by geminilady2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't bother. It is a scam. They will wind up with your money and you will wind up broke. If it was legitimate, why do they need you?
2007-08-23 09:51:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its
fake
dont answer them i get them alot ITS TO GET A IDEA AND HURT YOU IN LONG RUN
ignoreeeeeeeeeeeee IT
2007-08-26 14:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by a_mommy_rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋