So generous

**Jessika** · 07-02-2008, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

I can't believe you are all that naive!

Do not send you bank number and pin....

IT'S your Social Security Number and date of birth and mother's maiden name so they can be sure!

I really hope you don't think I'm that naive... I was being sarcastic right along with everyone else. Anyone who does give out personal information via email is a downright fool!

**RICHARD** · 07-02-2008, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by Jessika

I really hope you don't think I'm that naive... I was being sarcastic right along with everyone else. Anyone who does give out personal information via email is a downright fool!

Now the Ethiopians and the U.S. Government know who my mama is?

**Jessika** · 07-02-2008, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

Now the Ethiopians and the U.S. Government know who my mama is?

Apparently

**Pawsitive Thinking** · 07-03-2008, 03:45 AM

And some other guy wants to send me $6.5 million to invest in my country...........anyone know of a decent spam blocker

**Jessika** · 07-03-2008, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by Brody's Mum

And some other guy wants to send me $6.5 million to invest in my country...........anyone know of a decent spam blocker

GMail

Also, don't give out your email address on any website... if you must post it publically, do it like

name[@]domain.com

Hopefully then people aren't confused and will remove the [ and ]. I never ever give out my personal email where it will be displayed publically on sites. And if I need to sign up for a website and am worried about getting spammed I have a second email address that I have access to that can get all the spam it wants

There are "spiders" that "crawl" the web looking for email addresses and "harvests" them and then spam them, so the less your email is displayed publically, the less chance of it being "harvested".