Scam
By justinus
@justinus (1104)
Karawaci, Indonesia
February 18, 2009 4:32pm CST
Hello, I got much scam/e-mail every day and I tried to treat some of them which offered partnership for big money. Almost all of them come from Africa, if about prize or winning it was usually from UK. It was already in years, I am wondering that they keep doing this because they can make money through that way ! Do you have any experience about this ? Thank you, just curious.
2 responses
@daneg33 (1128)
• Canada
18 Feb 09
If you ever get a weird email that you are not sure of, check with snopes and look it up. This thing you are referring to - the lottery email - is a scam and you can read about it here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/lottery.asp
Remember, use common sense, always. If it seems too good to be true, IT IS. Consider it spam and delete it. Do not reply to the email. Many times an email is sent out to a thousand varieties of an email provider just to "phish" for live email addresses. Once you reply, the spammers know they have a "live" address and you will bombarded with spam. Even if there is an unsubscribe link. Don't do it. They are not really unsubscribing you, you are confirming your email address.
@michaelxx74 (217)
• Cliffside Park, New Jersey
18 Feb 09
same with me, each receive an email like that I'm always delete them without opening it. Just view the subject I know the mail is scam so than the waste of time, immediately removed.
