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Old 10-17-2011, 11:11 AM
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Default Email Scams

Seems as though the email computer scams are on the raise again.

Let's see, so far I have won the Canadan Lotto, the Email Lotto, the US Email Lotto, the Spanish Lotto, and I think that every Nigrian has my email address along with those from the Treasury Department that want to give me money. Just because I have never entered any of this lottos does not seem to matter, or meet any of the kind Nigrains who need my help does not seems to matter all that much.

Remember if it seems to good to be true it is.

Also be careful opening some of these emails as a lot of them have an attached program that will add a trojan horse to your computer to send all your key strokes to another server. That way the sender can grather all your usernames and passwords for financial sites, shopping sites, etc.,and you end up buy lots of stuff that you did know that you wanted. LOL

Best bet is to delete any email that you don't recognize or any email with a subject line indicating you won, get picked or need your help, even if you recognize the email address. If its a friend, call them on a phone.

Hope that this helps someone not be taken and lose money.
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