How can I stop what is called the nigerian scam emails being sent to me?

Question

I have recieved hundredsof emails claiming that I have inherited money, or won the lottery, does any one know how i can stop them.

Answer 1

There's no way. Every time one comes in, flag it, and any that might follow from that address will be blocked. This is a manual process, of course. Some hacker might have a bot or script they could give you. But in general use, nothing can be done other than ignore them.

Answer 2

How To Stop Scam Emails

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

ha guys , yes I will say it I did get scamed, an no it was not funny , I took it as far as the FBI hanging out on my net, But what is worse is somebody overseas ,trying to pull one with the powerball ,and it is only played in the USA so remember if you win any thing it will be delivered by registered mail with out fall. an by learning you are not paying not transfer fee . so please passit on out there. hope every one has a great day.

Answer 7

Lol. You are one odd person, you know that? But you're awesome. :) I know, I've tried that, too. No replies. Rather depressing, isn't it? Toof Paste.

Answer 8

I would be a multi millionaire if I accepted all the ones I have received. I think they were funny at first but am totally fed up of them now. I have marked them as "spam" and they go straight to my junk inbox. This is set to delete after 14 days.



Don't even know I get them now!

Answer 9

I used to receive dozens. Then I had the idea of sending really abusive replies containing all types of words I could never use on this site. These days I only get one Nigerian scam e-mail every 2-3 weeks

Answer 10

You can`t stop them, but can report them to the ISP the email comes from, Yahoo is abuse@yahoo. co.uk, other ISP have a similar system, but you must supply the full headers, copied from Page source in your browser.

You can play with these people, BUT ONLY if you know wht you are doing as it can be very dangerous, take a look at the 419eater page, I am there but you won`t recognise me, nor will I reveal who I am.

Some really funny stuff to read.

Answer 11

Mail follows certain 'protocols' (or procedures) and part of it is that when you fetch your mail from the server, the message appears to the sender as "mail delivered to a valid address" so the bots know it's a valid address & keep sending junk (plus spread your address to other spammers).



Merely 'deleting' from your mail viewing application will not stop this cycle. 'Block sender' fails because it only blocks that specific sender & once the 'bots' discover your address, 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 the notification of a valid address, from the Mail Server (your ISP).

Get a program that will examine what mail is on the server, and 'bounce' selected mail back to the spam sender ; in effect saying, 'This address is invalid' and they eventually stop sending junk. (Not instantly, but a "blacklist" is made, & it begins stopping spam).



Also, never 'click here to unsubscribe' or send ANY form of communication back to them: it only verifies that a live person is on your end of things.

'Mailwasher' Free, (1 POP3 mail account) works fairly well.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/comm/fwspam.html

More app's here also.

A well know & trusted site.



After installing have these items enabled 'Bounce' & 'Attachments' (plus any others you want).

To examine mail, hit the 'Check Mail' button, then sift through the mailbox; check "Bounce" for spam, delete stuff you just don't want to fiddle with, then "Process".

Mail can now be "fetched" from the server with your normal mail application.

Answer 12

The only sure way is to change your email address, & be VERY careful who gets the new one.

Answer 13

Do what I do block every connection from Africa and South America,

Its Amazing, My SPAM has gone done over 90%.

Block the relevant countrys IP ranges

Answer 14

I make up 2 accounts?

1. Is for my personal stuff. I only give out this address to friends and trusted sites I want keep contact with?

I use Firefox for this accuont?



2.Is my alter ego and I give it out to who ever wants it to join their crappy site or whatever? This is my spam account and I know there;s usually nothing good in this account so I just skim through them and delete everything?

I use IE for this account so all I have to do to switch emails is toggle between browsers instead of signing out and back in again?



Check out this it works great!

Download Portable Firefox and put it on a pen drive or cd and you can use it for your net browsing and it doesn't leave any traces on the host computer.

3.5 Firefox. (It's really fast)

(Directions)

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Stay Safe Out There (^.^)

Answer 15

I email them back.



Within a few carefully chosen emails you can get them to do a lot of running around for you and even waste their own time and money in the process.



Ah here it is ...

http://www.419eater.com/



Post the details of each one on there and watch the replies, it's hilarious.



It makes a great pet project for those times when you're bored :)



If you don't fancy that then try reporting them to the relevant authority (see source).



Or



Change your email address

Get a spam filter

Give up on email altogether :)



Side note :

It's a known scam, its referred to as the Nigerian 401 scam because it started in Nigeria and the scammers basically "steal" peoples 401k through making claims they can't back.



Google it and you'll be suprised at the results ;)

Answer 16

Yeah, those are really annoying, i don't think there is any way of stopping them being sent to your address, only to divert them to spam folder or ignore and send straight to trash.

Answer 17

What, you mean you don't want to send them your photo ID, your SSN, and bank information to Nigeria for your 100 Million USD to be transferred to your account?

:)



But all you'll have to do is donate 30% of it to a charity of your choice in the person whom has died name.

haha... one day I emailed back, saying YES.. then for 2 weeks we wrote emails back and fourth until the person on the other end was so fed up with me not cooperating properly that he called me a dumbass.

Answer 18

you can too stop them, you just have to know how. i stopped a lot of inappropriate emails coming in before, and i hardly ever see them.



you could spam it.



or the easiest way to block them is to see what the email address is after the @ sign. If you have yahoo mail than you: 1. click options (far top right) 2. click mail options 3. click spam tab 4. add a blocked address (you can copy the whole address in there or if you keep receiving multiple emails from different people you might want to see if there is a pattern in the domain addresses they use such as if a lot of them are coming from [e-mail] you could just type in the live.com in the add blocking address and it will block all incoming emails from live.com. The only down fall on this is that if you receive personal emails from people through live.com then you might not want to do that.)



hope that help. if you don't have yahoo mail you can try the same steps with you email too.

Answer 19

You can't, they come from different email addresses all the time, I get them everyday and find them quite amusing.

Try responding to some of them and have them on for a few emails, I get satisfaction out of thinking I may have wasted some of their time thinking they have caught someone out

Answer 20

Use Gmail, your life will be easier :)

Answer 21

I get them ALL the time.. Well I did.

What i did recently was reply to some of them and tell that I am an FBI agent or police officer, and if they send anything to me again, they will be disgraced and charged.



I haven't received any e-mails since and i make sure that they are sent to my junk box, as I don't open anythng in there.

Answer 22

You can't stop them. Just mark them spam. Or Use BOXBE mail handler. It's totally free!~

Answer 23

do what i did

when i heard something blah blah blah, religion, old lady, god, blah blah blah

i send one back saying i was atheist :D (and i am)

Answer 24

Mark as spam and quit giving out your e-mail address online. Whether it be to people, websites, or filling out surveys, etc.

Answer 25

Buy any mainstream antivirus program with a spam filter. Norton, McAfee or TrendMicro.

Answer 26

Mark as spam!!!