Hooks Mail
By bhanusb
@bhanusb (5709)
India
April 25, 2009 10:12am CST
You can find many provocative mails in your mail box.Such as:A South African widow wants to donate all her late husband's property to you or wants to invest these in your business.How can you check these are hooks mail.There is a easy system.First you visit the site 'snopes.com'.There you find a store of hooks mail.Then you can judge whether you got hooks mail.There are other sites also .You can visit:The AFU & Urban Legends Archive and The Straight Dope.
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6 responses
@savypat (20216)
• United States
25 Apr 09
I get these two or three times a week and of course just delete them. Is there another way to get rid of them other than just sending them to spam? here must be some money in these for someone or they wouldn't keep happening. The FBI's lowest amount of loss that they will help with is $10,000. I expect that the hook people know that and stay under that amount of fraud.
@060157 (1059)
• Pakistan
25 Apr 09
well, i don't need any site to verify if such mails are fraud... because they are always fraud and just too good to be true. i get such mails every month, but the most frequent has been the one that says that Bill Gates is planning to share his earning with hotmail users 
@amitksing (1323)
• India
26 Apr 09
Yes, I haven't come to even a single case where such e-mails have proved to be genuine. Most of them (and for me, all of them) are fake and just mail such things just to collect your details. I wonder what they do with these details, since they are not that confidential.. may be they use that for some survey or for marketing purposes.
@sergedan (767)
• Romania
26 Apr 09
Thanks for letting me know, in the beginning I just deleted the messages, but from now on I'll visit the site snoopes.com, and just to make sure I'll also see about THE AFU Urban Lee...whatever. Maybe one day one of these mails turn out to be real and I'll be a rich man. haha
@Little_Boy (448)
• India
26 Apr 09
Hmm! Very good information! Thanks a lot for this contribution!!
@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
27 Apr 09
Hello bhanusb! I have received that kind of email too and I know for sure it's a scam. It sounds real but actually, I don't think it's possible that someone would donate money to you.
