I keep getting scam email. What should I do?
They are all saying im getting money:
Barristers’ Chambers:TEDDY SAMSON & ASSOCIATESAddress:33 Bedford Row LondonWC1R 4JH, England PARTNER MANAGINGTEDDY SAMSON SAMSON & ASSOCIATESLONDON – UK.Tel:Tel +447011151263E-mail: barr_teddysamson_esq_07@hotmail.comAtten… behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Jürgen Krügger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter wasreturned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this sameemail address on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Engr. JürgenKrügger made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of ThirtyMillion, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD, 100.000.00) to you inthe Codicil and last testament to his WILL.This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real andtrue. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact withyou in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of hisnumerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Jürgen Krügger until hisdeath was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute ofElectronic & Electrical Engineers.He was a very dedicated Christian who loved to give out.His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during hislife time. Late Engr. Jürgen Krügger died on the 13th day of December,2004 at the age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution.According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activitiesand to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reachyou as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible toenable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.Note:You are advise to contact me with my personalemail address: barr_teddysamson_esq_07@hotmail.comI await your prompt response.Yours in Service,BARRISTER TEDDY SAMSON ESQ. pls note that for security you are to contact me with my personal (Email) barr_teddysamson_esq_07@hotmail.com
NOKIA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Ref:WIN/938/7834/08
Unclaimed Winnings:
In regards to the above subject, I, Barrister Barry White, Claims Supervisor for the Nokia International Lottery Board (NILB) wish to notify you through this e-mail that your case file has been re-opened.
You were selected as a winner in the NOKIA INTERNATIONAL SWEEP STAKE, held on August 2009, but you never claimed the winnings due reasons best known to you. With direction from the New Regional Director of this great Lottery Organization, Your case file has been re-opened to give you an opportunity to claim your winnings amounting to £1,020,728 ( One Million, Twenty thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight Pounds) which was won by 04-18-22-27-44-48 33(BONUS) – Numbers from your email entry ticket.
Please Contact this office for further directives as to how you can claim
this prize.
ATTN:DIRECTOR/CEO
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
I am Mr.Collins Thwala a senior staff and Procurement officer "Tender Board Committee" on the award of contracts in Department of Public Works here in South Africa. I got your contact E-mail address from a secure server online in my quest to find a trustworthy person on whom I can repose confidence for a transaction of this nature.
My aim of sending this "business proposal" to you is to solicit for your assistance and co-operation to transfer huge amount of money into your account overseas. Therefore, this communication should be held in high confidence. l as the chairman "Tender Board Committee" on the award of contracts in Department of Public Works wish to transfer into a safe and secured account overseas the sum of US Million which is over-invoiced amount from contracts l awarded to foreign contractors who have been duly paid on completion of their various contracts. This money right now is in a coded account in the National Treasury of South Africa. However, by virtue of my position as civil servant, l cannot acquire these funds in my name or in the names of any companies here in South Africa. I therefore deemed it necessary on trust and sincerity to look for a reliable international outfit/ partner abroad into whose account the sum of US Million will be transferred.
l have agreed on the sharing ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you as the account owner. My choice of you for this transaction is basically hanged on trust and I hope you will not let me down. Please, be informed that all arrangemenents will be made for the processing of claims of payment once I am in receipt of the information required from you, and the funds will get into your account within 7 working days by Telegraphic Transfer(T.T)
Note as well that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I am waiting for your very urgent response by calling me on my private number TEL.NO. 00-27-83-883-8942. and l will forward my private email address to you and all your response should be sent to my private email address as well.
Best Regards
Mr.Collins Thwala.
2 Responses
Maddie
23 Oct 2009
Lyn G
23 Oct 2009
Dylan, why are you opening mail from people you do not know? When you open those spam mailings that tells them that your address is valid and they send you loads and loads more! You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it.
First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you.
Check mark them and click on ‘Spam,’ this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox.
Use your spam guard and block address.
Look for the ‘Options’ link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it
Options /mail options
Click on ’spam’ in the list on the left.
Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box.
Then in ‘Blocked Email Addresses,’ enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after ‘Add a blocked address’ and click on the ‘add’ button, then click on save changes at top left of screen.
You will never get mail from that address again.
This should help you to control your spam.
Other tips:
Never open E-mail unless you are absolutely sure who it is from.
Never give out your personal information to anyone.
If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like.
Added detail:
Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in
*@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com
for instance: *@seeyou.com
Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@*
Hope this helps.
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There’s no way to get the emails to stop coming but they might stop coming after a while if you don’t respond. I’m not sure, but for some reason they have your email which you must have put on an anonymous website, so they added you to their emailing list which they email scam to.
The only thing you can do for now is when you read the message look up at the top where it says reply or delete and things like that and select "Spam" it will send all messages like these(and if it doesn’t work with the others, then just send them to your Spam box too) to your Spam inbox, which you can access from the sidebar where you can go to your drafts and trash. So everyday you can just go to your spam inbox and empty it.
Good luck!
Hope I helped!
<3~Maddie