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Email Scams and Spam
Email Scams and Spam
- Email Spams - Endless unsolicited help in
getting a cheap mortgage, enlarging your
genitals,
buying Viagra or cheap drugs, software or losing weight. Many of these also
contain worms and viruses! And don't think for a moment that the "sent from"
or "reply to" addresses are real.. or really who sent it.
See this page about falsified email addresses: spoofing!
- How to Stop Spam almost forever! You don't have to face an inbox full of
porn, spam, scams and junk every day.
Here's how to stop it.
- Nigerian Scams: Money Transfer / Advance Fee Fraud / Bank account scams / Fake Business deals (419 scams), such as letters, emails or
faxes notifying the recipient that the sender requires help in transferring
a large sum of money through your bank account (for reward) usually from
Nigerian and Dutch sources. There are many variations on this scheme,
including the fake business deal: "I need a business partner in the U.S.", types of money
laundering, and others. Also see
fake cashier's checks. Also see
Jobs Scams. Also see these pages: