All the scams have finally made communication online less effective than snail mail. I occasionally delete an important message while deleting spam scams as well as spending countless hours reviewing junk.
Ive almost been tricked lately by scammers getting a hold of my resume which was submitted to a legitimate head hunter.
I've had it and am willing to spend some time at fighting back before entirely giving up on the www.
2007-09-28 04:57:57 · 4 answers · asked by Brian C 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Scambait the b@$^@#ds.
"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."
"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."
More at:
http://www.419eater.com/
Enjoy :-)
2007-09-28 05:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you really think you and/or a group from Answers or anyplace else can "get revenge" or "stop" all the scammers and crooks online, you need to get a grip. First of all, that's not possible. And why is your time more important than anyone else's? If you can't determine which is a legitimate message from spam, you need to take a good look at who you are getting mail from. And if you submitted your resume to a legitimate headhunter, did their website not have an SSL icon to tell you that it was secure? If not, that's not a good headhunter.
2007-09-28 12:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Here's what I do:
“Lottery Winners” — Report Phishing
In Yahoo mail, options, set your options to:
1. block HTML images
2. display full headers
If you get a legitimate e-mail and you want to see the image, just scroll to the bottom of the message and click to display.
To report these @#$%^:
Open the e-mail - carefully (underline carefully) - do not click anything -- select the full header and the message. Right-click to copy.
Scroll down to Compose and click it to open
Paste the header and e-mail in the message box.
Send it to:
reportphishing@antiphishing.org
Return to messages, click in the box preceding the offending message and mark it as SPAM - which blocks it from further accessing your mailbox.
2007-09-28 12:01:28 · answer #3 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send me your social security number and your banking information and I'll tell you. ;-P
2007-09-28 12:08:22 · answer #4 · answered by Cappo359 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋