How many of you get these annoying emails, saying they want to give you money or have won the spanish lottery or yahoo messenger have randomly picked u for a lottery to win 20000 dollars. when all they want are your details, its a scam and an annoying one at that. i mean do people really fall for it, is there any way we can stop it or report it, i get about 4 a day and even when i block them, diffrent ones keep coming. do you get them also. here an example of one of the more heartfelt ones i recived today.


Mrs Rosemary Everson
Email:roseverson@netscape.net

Dear Beloved,
My name is Rosemary Everson,i am a dying woman who has decided to donate
What i have to you.
I am 59 years old,was diagnosed of cancer about 2 years ago immediately after
The death of my husband,who has left me everything he worked for.
I have been touched by God to donate from what i have inherited from my late
Husband to you for the good work of God,rather than to allow my relatives to
Use my husbands hard earned funds ungodly.
Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins.I have asked God to forgive
Me and i know he has because he is a merciful God.I will be going for an
Operation in less than one hour.
I decided to WILL/donatethe sum of 2,000,000 Euro(Two million Euro)to you
For the good work of the Lord,and also to help the motherless,less priviledged
And assistance of the Widows.
I cannot take any telephone calls at the moment due to the fact that my relatives
Are around me and my health status.
I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is aware that i have changed my WILL,you and my lawyer will arrange the transfer of the funds from my account
To yours.
I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly,and please
Use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer (Barrister.Frederick Peterson) with this specified
Email:fedpeters07@aim.com and tell him that i have WILLED 2,000,000 Euro
To you,i have also notified him that i am WILLING that amount to you for a
Specific and good work.I know that i don't know you but i have been directed to
Do this.Thanks and Godbless you.
N.B:I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as i don't want anything to jeopardize my last wish.I shall try my possible best to contact you via email as i don't want my relatives or anybody to
Know because they are around me.
Regards,
Mrs.Rosemary Everson.
Happy moments,praise God
Difficult moments,seek God
Quiet moments,worship God
Painful moments,trust God
Every moment,thank God.


___________________________________________________________________________
Mail enviado desde el servicio WebMail del Sitio Informática del Caribe - http://www.infocaribe.com.co

About 50 a day. and not only these, but also inheritance notifications, some Nigerian trying to give me millions for helping him smuggle more millions out of his country, people that say they have amassed millions through the food for oil program and want me to help launder them...

Spam should be punishable with at least 10 years but no more than 99 years hard labor!

I hear ya.
i get those also. is there anywhere we can report them, or are they undectiable email, free email accounts etc.

I delete all spam e-mail & people I don't know. >.> I don't open anything like that. I don't think I've ever gotten any at all.

luckily. i don't get those, thank God!!!!! but i have heard of them, annoying little buggers from the nice verison of the word.

i open all spam (to self: next time i switch on my computer i'll be bombarded with spam,,,,better say something) on second thoughts i don't.

I've gotten a few of those.

I've been getting alot of them, some in screened mail and some in regular email....As soon as I see the heading, I delete them...I did try one, scrolled to the bottom where they usually have a link to delete getting the mail, but none was there...

I get about 5 a week. I delete before I read them usually, sometimes I read one cause they are so damn funny. I mean, I think to myself, does anybody actually fall for this?

Give it a couple more years and I'm sure that Spammers will be reclassified as Terrorists.

Hopefully the prospect of being taken out by an airstrike might deter a few of them.

i've gotten a bunch of those before, haven't seen em in years.

yupppp.... nigeria, somalia... rebel, coupe, etc etc...

Nope .... I haven't gotten any like that, Thank God!

I get those all the time, and it,s just spam scam junk mail so i just delete them without opening!

Believe it or not, I don't get any of those.

Especially if they contain a Link, sometimes you can get unwanted downloads on your computer containing some virus or trojan. These people are pain in the butts

I read a story in a magazine a few weeks back, whereby a bloke did reply to one of these emails against the advice of his wife. He proceeded to deal with the Nigerian privately and the final result was that he lost £157,000. The bloke ended up running away and it was only when his wife had to go through their company accounts that it was all discovered.

I too, find it difficult to think of people falling for these scams, some people do, however, end up being conned out of their life-savings. I have the view that if I haven't done the lottery how the hell could I win and with regards to some of the other scams, nothing is free and I could not for the life of me, understand why anyone would just want to give me £250,000 when they have never even met me lol.


Yes we get lots of emails from Nigerians, the emails always start off with something like "Dear Friend" - I wish they wouldn't do that, they are not my friends lol.

garbage , pure garbage. thieves. the best advice is if you don't know the sender or didn't ask for it so to speak , throw it away.

funny this came up this morning because I've just come from arguing again with my 91 year old grandmother that she did not win publishers clearing house ( again for the 100th time). she swears ' you have to call them. I won. I've been playing 10 years they owe me' I even printed off a list of their 'winners' and her name was of course not on it. she didn't believe it. she wants her 10 thousand dollar check . ( she's even accused me and my brother when he was alive of stealing a million dollar check)

it's crazy. but even in her sixties she was gullible. If she could drive to the casino she'd be addicted to slots. and that's exactly what it is , addiction. especially for older people.