How do you report an email scam? ?

I just received an email with the subject: Attn: ATM Card Beneficiary and that my CONTRACT/INHERITANCE payment of US$1,500,000.00 from CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA have been RELEASED AND APPROVED FOR onwaward transfer to you via an ATM CARD which you will use to make withdrawal in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, with the maximum withdrawal per day of US$10,000.00 only.





The IBTC CHARTERED BANK PLC. has been instructed to send you the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER.





They go on to ask you to contact a person by phone or email including your personal information for reconfirmation.





This is signed by Dr. Usman Sanusi, Auditor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

How do you report an email scam? ?
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Reply:Most all of this sort of fradulant e-mail activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.





For a piss-poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency" (US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"





About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.





"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."





"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."





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Reply:This is a classic Nigerian e-mail scam. The best way to deal with it is to just ignore it - delete it without opening any attachments.





As far as reporting it, common sense prevails when dealing with internet scams: too good to be true probably is.





Head over to http://www.snopes.com to look up Nigerian scams.





- Stuart
Reply:Hey Bud, sup?


Just so ya' know, mail follows a certain 'protocol' and part of it is that when you get your mail from the server, it sends a 'message' back to the sender saying "Yup, mail delivered %26amp; somebody's there..." so the spammers know it's a valid address %26amp; keep sending junk, plus spread your address to other spammers.





Merely 'deleting' from your mail viewing application will not stop this cycle, and 'block sender' fails because it's only blocks that specific sender...all they have to do is change a single character of the senders name, and they start getting their junk through again (depending on your filtering settings).





You want to end that sender notification from the Server (your ISP) level.


Get a program that will 'bounce' the mail back to the sender; in effect saying, 'This address is invalid' and they eventually stop sending junk. (Not instantly, but it's a start).





Try 'Mailwasher' Free, for 1 POP3 mail account. Upgradeable for multiple POP3's %26amp; web based mail. (Other applications available here also.)


http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/comm/f...


A well know %26amp; trusted site.