Saturday, November 7, 2009

How do you report an email scam when they have a yahoo email address?

I received these emails. They ether have a yahoo email or a hotmail address. They are a known scam. How would I notify yahoo of this email address so that they could help inconvenience scammers and or eliminate there accounts. I am coping the contents so that if you have something for sale online and get something to good to be true.





Hello seller my name is (MRS)Marie Nelson.The reason I sent you this email is to inform you that i saw your pet and i intrested in it,payment will be make by certified Money Order or cashier check. In view of this I need your (1)Full Name (2)Full address (3)Contact phone# (4)accept of my offer to send the Money Order,you don't have to be worry about the shipping my shipping company will handle it.i will be sending Enough money on the Money Order and after you deduct all the money you need the remaining money will be send back to my shipping company that will come for the pick up of the pet... get back to me As soon as possible to send you the Money Order!

How do you report an email scam when they have a yahoo email address?
If you click on the below link this site has an online form where all scams and frauds can be reported. This site also has some good advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free in box :


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/re...
Reply:And you really think Yahoo is unaware of this? The internet is full of scams, this is just one of them. The way you handle this is to click on spam and get rid of this message. sending it to Yahoo or some agency won't stop the scam, as you could see if you really looked at this message. See the incorrect English and grammar?
Reply:write to them


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