Am I on the sucker list through email??
By mssnow
@mssnow (9484)
United States
April 19, 2008 9:09am CST
Everyday in my emails I get about 25 emails saying: You have won or You are beneficiary
or something. Its always another country (other than the US) I know they are scams. I NEVER answer them but how did I even get put on that sucker list to begin with??It doesnt do any good to block them because they are never from the same email addie. I guess the only way to get rid of them is to get another email addie but how do I know they wont find it and target it too?? I dont even know why they keep bothering. Do people REALLY fall for these scams?? Here is the latest one i got today (mind you this is one of many just today)
Good day
Top of the day to you and your family,
My name is Mr.Song Lile i am the director of operation in Hang Seng
Bank Hong Kong.I have a business proposal in the tune of $19.5m. After
the successful transfer, we shall share in ratio of 40% for you and
60% for me. I will give you more information on how we would
handle this project.Please treat this business with
utmostconfidentiality and send me the following.
1.Full names:
2.Private phone number:
3.Current residential address:
4.Occupation:
5Age:
Kind Regards,
Mr. Song Lile
songlile_1977@yahoo.com.hk
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8 responses
@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
20 Apr 08
I seem to be on the sucker list too lol. I never even open them anymore. I have never fallen for one and never will. Who just gonna give you millions really.
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@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
20 Apr 08
Those scam emails are so annoying and I get about 15-20 every day. I would not even bother getting a new email address because I opened a new address and had never used to for anything, after 4 days the scams starting coming in. I have no idea what started it because like I mentioned this email address was never used, all I did was activate it. I guess these people will find their ways to get our addresses and send us these scams.
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Don't take me for real. I am just joking. For me, I am not bothered by such mails. Tney are automatically directed to the junk folder or deleted.
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
19 Apr 08
Oh!I forgot to mention that I use www.scamomatic.com for those few that wormed their way in my inbox. doesnt do much but you copy and paste the entire email you recieved and they explain why it is a scam and also gives lots of examples of scam mails that is already on their database. I can tell you that there are lots of them!
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@cmelton (160)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I also get a ton of these. Most go to my spam box but there still are some that come in my inbox and there's nothing I can do to stop it (or not that i know of). I am not sure how they ge email addresses but this seems to happen to a lot of people. I don't have much advice on this one but you are not the only one.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I get these spam email also. I get a ton of them every day and they mainly go to my spam box but it still fills up with them. I hate having to go through my inbox daily and delete all of them too. I think someone online sells our email addresses to others for them to be able to spam us with this fraud junk mail.
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@obidan (367)
• Romania
1 May 08
Yeah I get LOADS of these every day!
Let me tell you something that happened to me a few months ago:
I have a normal day, watching shows, playing games, friends and etc...I go to sleep...
The next day I find 3000+ emails in my INBOX for some on called ,,David'' that wanted me to have money making tips! I didn't register to any money making site then, and I don't know why that happened! I deleted some of them after that but they were to much for me to handle ! So i just lef them alone, now I have 600 unread messages, the other are deleted!
I hate those idiots!
Last time i got one of those was from some arabian guy that wanted me to join some banking system and give me some sort of prize for my efforts!
