email identity theft scams

No need to give a response to that kind of email. The thing that you have to remember is that internet/others will not give you free money without any work or another commercial action. So I agree with the first comment. To avoid this kind of email, you just keep from entering your email anywhere (subscription of untrusted web or blog, write your email in forum as contact person, etc). If you have to do so, then better you have 2 emails and one of them can be used for subscription, etc. If you want to write your email in any document, write it like this xxxx#et#gmail.com rather than xxxx@gmail.com. You can change the # symbol with other symbols and 'et' word with 'at'.

Almost all emails lotterys are scams later they ask to pay tax for that amount if you pay that amount then you will not get any response from them

Most of the time when I am going through my emails I can tell when there are messages that just aren't right. When I see a message like that I will delete the message and then open a new browser window and check the actual website for the company in question. I've been lucky up to this point of my life and we've never lost any valuable information because of email phishing scams that we could have fallen victim to.

Sweety They look so real, if you proceed to claim, they ask you to bear the legal fees, you send, it is gone.I am told they all come from Nigeria!!!! Thanks for sharing, it might be helpful to many. Cheers. God bless you. Professor. .

I always say the same, use your common sense. Many simple precautions and the spam will never hurt you. For example, you can never won a lottery you haven't played. Your real life bank will never ask for personal data in emails, in any case they will send a real life snail mail with a proper letter asking to call them. PayPal will also never ask your password in any form. I receive a lot of mails trying to sell me Viagra that I never asked for, or inviting me to join a variety of sites I don't know about nor I'm interested in. Also, I've received confirmation details of flight tickets that I never bought (and Kaspersky was fast in telling me that the attachment was in fact a virus). And reports from a team mate that I don't know, again with a virus attachment. Simply speaking, from the title and the subject one can easily say that the mail is in fact a spam, if you don't know the sender and the subject is not clear enough.

me too, i always receive spam email almost everyday. Last time i got email that ask me to claim a 500$ prize from liberty reserve. I know its a scam because i never join anything to win such prize. Simply ignore it.

The majority of those type of emails are quite self incriminating. The requests or claims made in such emails are usually nonsense, the offer of sending money to claim and unknown lottery or logging into your bank account as a request from the bank itself is certainly not convincing. If you ever receive a request to log into a site to check certain factors and feel that it may possibly be genuine, then simply open your internet browser and manually visit the site. This way there is no possible danger of using a false link. It is extremely easy to create a hyperlink to a duplicate site and change the wording of the link to emulate the genuine one. However, if you place the mouse curser on the hyperlink you can read the actual path specified, which is often a similar worded one to suggest a real address.