"Charles Greene" email scam?

I need help determining if this is a scam.





I copied the email and posted it on a blog at:


http://answersfortheblog.blogspot.com/





Basic message is that a guy by the name of "Charles Greene" has sent me a message to have a transaction that this 'unattended money' will be his and mine.





This looks like a classic scam to me, but I just want to be sure it is one. If it is a scam, can you please tell me who I need to report it to? Do I just report it to spam@uce.gov?

"Charles Greene" email scam?
It's a SCAM... 100% guaranteed. Reporting it will likely accomplish nothing, but what is more important is how YOU handle such spam mails. NEVER open mails from people you don't know!!!
Reply:Hello,


These days many Yahoo users are facing these problem. Many time you get mail or sms about a lottery or a bank acount that you have won or some dead account money will be transfered to you and etc. Friends, these all things are spam and meant for troubling users and filling the inboxes and to send fraud sms. The e-mail id's and the url from which the message sare send is fraud and inlegal. This is all fake and spam. Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is crap.Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.





Yahoo is committed to eliminating spam—eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.





Yahoo! SpamGuard





Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:





Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.


In the “Spam Filter” section, do you see “SpamGuard is ON”? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.


In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.


In this same section, you can also specify how often you’d like us to empty your Bulk folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing—or blocking—images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!


Image Blocking





Keep Image Blocking on. Image blocking defeats the “hits” spammers receive whenever one of their images is “viewed”—which can include the moment you select a spam message before you click Spam. Here’s how to block images:





Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Under Spam, click Spam Protection.


At the bottom of the page—“Step 1 of 3: Spam Filter”—click Continue.


At the bottom of the next page—“Step 2 of 3: Marking Messages as Spam or Not Spam”—click Continue.


On “Step 3 of 3: Image Blocking”, select “Block all images”.


The Spam button





If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.





If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.





What should you not do with spam%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;





Never open a spam message (or any message from a sender you don’t recognize) unless you have the "Block HTML graphics" setting on. If you view HTML images in an email, spammers are alerted that you opened their message. So how do you turn on the Block HTML function?


Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Under “Management”, click General Preferences.


Scroll down to the “Messages” section, and next to “Security:”, check the box beside “Block HTML graphics in email...”


At the bottom of the page, on the left, click Save.


Never respond to spam. To the individuals who send spam, one response or "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.


Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove" unless you trust or know the sender. Many spammers use the "remove" or "unsubscribe" links as a ploy to get you to react to the email. This may alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam.


Never click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam.


Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active.





This is a long but a full answer, hope it help's.
Reply:Well, I think it does look like a scam because a lot of words are spelled incorrectly. You should report it to the government because it is a real scam and involving money. they're just trying to get you to give out your personal information so that they can put you on all sorts of mailing lists and do bad stuff to you.
Reply:this is a common email money scam, don't proceed with it, u can report but i don't think it will do anything cuz scammmers/spammers will find some what 2 still email u or other people if u ever need further information on email money scams http://scamsbeware.com is a good resource center to help you stay informed, best wishes.