How do I stop the African emails asking to do banking with me? I get tons of them?

Question

I tried blocking emails with urgent appearing but it doesn't seem to work

Answer 1

This won't eliminate them totally, but over time should help gradually reduce spam and phishing email.

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. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )

Here are a few steps you can take to try and avoid spam.

1. Don't open unsolicited Spam. 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.

2. Don't use the Preview Pane for the same reasons as #1

3. Set you email options to accept mail from only people in your address book or safe lists.

4. Set some filters to automatically route spam to certain folders for easy deletion later.

5. Use a throwaway account for any online registrations you need such as news sites and contests, etc. Often these email addresses are sold to other places, particularly advertising firms. If the throwaway account gets over run, you can simply delete it and create another.

6. Use the BCC when composing emails and encourage your friends to do the same. What this does is protects mailing lists from email harvesters.

7. You can consider using a third party application such as SpamFighter (free version can only be used for 1 account and it is for Outlook and Outlook Express only) http://www.spamfighter.com/ . Mailwasher is also a good antispam tool. http://www.mailwasher.net/

8. Never reply to any spam email that you happen to open and receive for the same reason as #1 above.

You can see more info at the webpage below:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-007.html

Answer 2

Unfortunately this is happening a lot.. I get some of those in my Yahoo email as well.

One thing I do is just delete them.

It's either that or create a new email account.

Answer 3

I WOULD make a new email account and dont connect them... the reason you get those is from another website that sells your information to them and its a sign of "phishing" a new way of some sites to get information about you sometimes to solicit and sometimes to steal identities

Answer 4

Use Antispam

or

if you use Free-Web-Based Email, usually there's a junk mail filtering. Set that option to the highest (only receive from your contacts).

Answer 5

This is a scam I watched a show about it..you should forward one to the fbi with a note...

Answer 6

I get them too!!!

DO NOT give them any personal/banking details.!!!!