Email scam asking for help?

i got a mail from a girl in a refugee camp asking for help to come to my country. and she said she got 9.7M dollors in her dads account.


i figured out that it was a scam


my question is, i opened mails from her twice is there any harm to my pc ?.(i got nav internet security installed, but it did'nt react to that mail.)

Email scam asking for help?
It's a scam... Please post it on http://www.419legal.org/
Reply:NO, you'll never get virus or any harm done to your PC by opening an email. You CAN get harm done to your computer if you download an attachment that is in the email, which is why you should only download things from trusted sources.





I'm glad you didn't trust this email though. Its not from some girl in a refugee camp. Its probably from some scam artist in Nigeria trying to take peoples money and identity. What you'll do is say you will help. The "girl" says she needs money for airplane tickets, and you send her a check for $3,000. You won't hear from her again unless she is asking you for more money. Some people actually fall for stuff like this and give them their credit card number, next thing you know in 5 minutes time, you have charges to your account for video games, TVs, furniture... and its all in another country.





Its called "phishing" cuz not everyone bites the hook. And its commonly in countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Italy, even Britain.
Reply:Probably not. They are fishing for your account and SS# so that they can rape you financially. don't ever give your personal info out especially to someone you don't know.