get e-mails telling you that your e-mail address has been picked and your have won millions of dollars and all you have to do is furnish them with all kinds of personal information in order to collect it? Or that a long lost relative of yours has died and not left a will and you are the only living relative left and you will receive 7.5 million dollars if you can just furnish them with all kinds of personal information and also send thousands of dollars in tax money that must be paid before you get the millions? I must receice several of these a week and I always answer them by telling them that I am forwarding their e-mail to the proper authorities for investigation. your right junie I don't open emails that are not from someone I know. It's safer that way. No, never had that. Possibly my computer blocks any of that stuff out. Like other have said, I do not open e-mails unless I know who they are from. If I ever did get one like this, I certainly would not for one minute believe it. I have had phone calls promising a free holiday, big money win, etc. I treat these by either laying the phone down and letting them waste their money talking to the air, or just hanging up. Unfortunately, this is not the solution to these scams via e-mail. Perhaps you should try and get a protective programme to block them out. Yep I get that kind of garbage myself and that is what it is, garbage. I don't mess with it at all, I don't care if it is from MSN or Yahoo or who it is, I just hit spam and it is gone. Some time ago, I would reply to it and tell them to take me off their mailing list and found out that was a big mistake as that just tells them that they have hit a live email. So I have for the last 3 years or so just hit the spam button for all of that garbage. Not long ago I was getting them from the "IRS", now I do report those and to the IRS. Once you've opened it, they know your address is 'live' and pass it on or sell it with others that have been opened.
When they read your "I am forwarding their e-mail to the proper authorities for investigation", they probably just chuckle.
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