Email Scam

[RICHARD]

RICHARD,

I'm SURE she's at the bank getting a bank check cut for you...NOT!!!

YOU just don't want me to get a new truck......

[Catty1]

If only it was a real person, you MIGHT have a chance!

A program (spider, bot, crawler) on the Internet that gathers e-mail addresses to send spam to. There are countless e-mail addresses on Web site "contact us" pages as well as on blogs and newsgroups. Since they are typically coded in the "mailto" format, which when clicked, causes the address to open an e-mail message window, they are easily located

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_te...i=57361,00.asp

[Laura's Babies]

There is a web sight somewhere that I have been to several times where people who got those scam emails, played along with the scammers and string them along for a long time... It's a web sight where they post what they tell the scammers and how they string them along and some of it is some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Wish I could find it now!!

[Freedom]

I thouht of this thread just now.

I was "browsing" through craigslist, the farm and garden. Someone is selling a Craftsman ride on tractor mower, with a plow attachments, and all sorts of accessories for $550.

Anyway, he ends the posting by saying you need to be able to come pick it up, I can help you transport it, and no I do not want to ship it to your uncle in Nigeria.

[Marigold2]

LOL thats funny Freedom