I keep receiving literally dozens of these bloody e-mails asking for my details in order to process payment of so many million dollars of funds left by some dead foreigner that has no next of kin!!!
Some of them make it into my spam folder, but the majority unfortunately, are in my inbox. How do/can i stop this as it is totally doing my head in!!!|||I cannot tell you how many e-mails come into my Yahoo telling me I've won millions in the Angolan lottery, or telling me somebody in Nigeria desperately needs my help to get millions of pounds out of the country.
I've now started getting ones telling me someone with my surname died in Nigeria in a plane crash in 1998, and as they can't trace his next of kin they want to give me all his millions - seeing as we have the same surname! All I have to do is give my full name, address, date of birth and occupation. Oh, and my bank account details!!!!! Mustn't forget the bank account.
I've been getting about ten of these a day (and ones telling me to buy Viagra!!) for well over two years now. They're a pain, I know, but all you can do is just delete them, making sure you NEVER open any attachments or click on any links. Mark them as 'Spam' as soon as you see them, and hopefully your e-mail provider's filter will start to identify them a bit more effectively.
Nightmare, I know. A curse of living in this technologically-advanced age!|||I know exactly how you feel I was getting the same so I changed my email address I also took the old email address off my PC and now and then check it on line just in case there is something I need last time I looked there were 87 of these rubbish emails so personally I would say this would be your best option then send out an email to all those in your address book telling them about your change of email address you can write one email and add all the addresses in your address book to the one email
Hope this is of help to you|||Depends on which mail tool you're using.
A rather effective way to block in things like MS-Outlook and Lotus Notes is to set a rule that ALLOWS the addresses or domains you want and sends everything else to spam. On occasion you'll get real mail in spam but it lets you look through most of your mail before you look at the spam folder. This is more effective than algorithms and other spam blocking methods that try to decide what is spam. Essentially you're assuming EVERYTHING is spam except for what you've specifically allowed in.
On Yahoo Mail make sure you have the bulk mail folder option. Most of the "spam" goes there. You'll still get spam in your inbox but it will be a lot less than if you allow bulk mail into it.
Do not give your email to websites that you don't know anything about. On the ones you do make sure you are unchecking the options for "special offers" etc... that they all have. Most companies will sell your email address unless you specifically opt out and by default the option for allowing them "and our partners" to send is usually on so you have to look for it and turn it off.|||I answer so many questions on email scams every day on this site. I always direct the questionnaire to the below link so they can report these scams :
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/ni鈥?/a>
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment