EMAIL SCAM HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

i have gotten about 15 of the same email but from different people. this i swhat they say or are related to this topic:





Urgent Assistance,


Par votre h么te: Issa Kabore





Message: From Mr Issa Kabore, I am the Audit and Accounts director in the foreign remittance department in bank of African, B.O.A. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($7.2 )millionimmediately to your account.





I will send you full details on how the business will be executed and alsonote that you will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to helpme execute this business. vist me will this email address issakabore15@hotmail.fr





if you have gotten emails like this please let me know what to do to stop them.

EMAIL SCAM HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
This is a rather common Nigerian 419 scam. See:


http://nigerian-scam.com/


for a little more info. Spammers use phony addresses so none of them are where it came from.


If you use Yahoo turn on the spamguard to stop getting these. Click Options Mail Optins and then Spam. Check that top box.


After that some spam my sneak through, just highlight it and click the Spam button. Yahoo will learn what you want and what you do not want.
Reply:Forward the messages to the Federal Trade Commission at the following address:


spam@uce.gov





You can also report them here: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/feedba...





In the event any of the scam messages that came from Y! Mail accounts, they should be reported here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...
Reply:What to do to stop this? The first thing you do is STOP OPENING AND READING THIS CRAP! When you open them, you notify the spammer that he has a real, live email address. He collects and sells this information to other spammers.





Spammers have automated scripts that send emails out using a "dictionary attack". This means their script just sends out tons of emails to various combinations of numbers and letters at different domains. Kind of like if you just start calling phone numbers starting with 100-100-0000 then 100-100-0001, etc. They don't know what is a valid email address and what is not. When you reply to one (try to unsubscribe, or replying back telling them how you hate them), you are now confirming your email address is a real, live email address. They have special lists of those, because they know they're guaranteed real. They then sell those lists to other spammers at a premium. Then you get more spam!