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NigerianScam
Jul 24, 2008 | 8:24 AM
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This morning, I was the recipient of a Nigerian scam letter in my e-mail. It was poorly written and full of misspelled words. Of course I will not respond to it, but does anyone know how these people get one's e-mail address? Also, is there some type of legal entity that I can forward this letter to? It unnerves me to have received something like this. Several months ago, I got one, deleted it, and that was the end of it. I want to DO something to prevent this from happening again.
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lanny read my blog
Jul 24, 2008 | 7:45 PM

I get the same thing you do. Who knows how they get our address and rather that wasting time trying to get someone in trouble, I just let it go. Remember, as Marvin Zindler would always tell us, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is!!
chassan read my blog view my photos
Jul 24, 2008 | 9:46 PM

Kagua,

Some mass mailers will send messages about products to several million e-mail addresses at one time. Many of the addresses are created by the sender to see if such an address works. If there's no bounce back, then the address may be valid. The sender then sells the millions of addresses to some other spammer.

Spammers also get e-mail addresses from various lists where people have submitted their e-mail address, thinking no one else would get it.

Never open up spam, because some senders are equipped to tell whether you opened it. If you open it, then they learn yours is a valid address.
truetexan read my blog view my photos
Jul 25, 2008 | 5:49 PM

As chassan said never open up spam,if you do and it is a scam BEFORE you delete it FORWARD it to the FBI. Call your local FBI office and they will give you an e-mail address to send these to.They then track them back and a lot of them come from with-in the U.S.They also work with other countries to shut them down as well.
kagua2 read my blog
Jul 27, 2008 | 3:17 PM

Ironically, I received the same letter yesterday. I feel so violated.Iwill call the FBI. Thanks!
kagua2 read my blog
Jul 28, 2008 | 6:01 AM

Well, Texan, I called the FBIand apparently, they are so inundated with complaints about Nigerian scam letters they refused to take mine.Their advice: delete it and forget about it. I suppose that would be easy if, at the present moment I was not suffering through several personal crises involving family members ripping me off and it's just one more thing that I cannot abide at this time. Sorry, had to vent.
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Married, 2 kids, very consumer rights-oriented. Into current events, entertainment, politics. Hard-core classic rock fan, especially music from the '60's and 70's. Animal lover. Transplanted Yankee since '89.

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