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at worst by replying it tells the scamers youre email addy is active and they pass it on to others and you get bombarded with fake emails, i have noticed the y often get an email addy ending with say aol and then just list hundreds of various names ie John smith@, paul smith@ steven Smith@ etc, and hope they hit a valid address, i had a dead genuine paypal one this morning telling me my account had been frauded, and half asllep i nearly hit the link, but i went through the genuine website and i had not been defrauded, they where after my login details, you have to be carefull

Garry, the address the emails r comin from are @yahoo.com. With you all replying to my thread i am getting concerned now. Since the first email i have had other emails from different people saying the very same thing!!! Have i reason to be scared, cos thats how im feeling right now. Kaz

Louise, i am feeling rather silly right now and also very scared!!! Garry, it did say in one of the emails something about wire what ever you said!!! :(((((

Karen, You have nothing to be scared of. Just delete the emails as soon as you receive them. If you have the option, Bar all emails from that sender.

Karen, don't be scared, just be careful. Never ever respond to an email you don't recognise, it it was important they will contact you again. Very common spam/scam this one as is the Nigerian one and the cheap mortgage, although I've not had that one for a whilst. As you have responded to one email you may be inundated with more. Try downloading mailwasher which allows you to preview and bounce emails back, gives the impression of an inactive email address. Ros

Karen My Dad was targeted via post about lotteries for several years, & he sent off about £4000 + a year & his weekly pension. Needless to say he never one a thing. Get those details off to your local Trading Standards Office first thing Monday so they can investigate & hopefully shut those crooks down. Block their emails & NEVER relpy to them, they will then pass your details on what they call a 'scam List' to every crook known to man! :-(((( Best wishes, Joan.

another one is with cars, say you want £6,000 for your car, they ring up and say there from Australia and give you full money for the car + £2,000 for shipping,so you think great, they send you a cheque for the full £8000, but want you to wire the £2000 for the shiping imidiatly via Weston Union to Holland, no probs he has given you the money in his cheque, you send the money, the cheque bounces 3 days later and youve lost 2 grand

Pardon me for saying this, But the spelling and the grammar leave something to be desired.........these were never written by a bona fide organisation...............what were we saying on another thread? SCAM SCAM SCAM with Scam......... Bob YATCH?? should be YACHT...........UPON TYNE NEWCASTLE?? The only genuine thing about it, is that they think you are a mug.. Bob

I won about 1 million euros the other week lol!!! deleted it of course there are a lot of scams about I don't even bother reading them now. Germaine

Hi Karen I agree that you shouldn't worry about this as you haven't given any specific details. In future - do what I do if you get an e-mail from someone whose name you DONT recognize- NEVER open it right away. Instead RIGHT CLICK ON THEIR NAME in Outlook Express. This brings up a window where the last item on the list is 'Properties' - click on this. You will then get an expanded window which tells you the DETAILS OF THE SENDER. If you still do not recognise the senders address CLICK CANCEL in the window then click DELETE on the Menu bar above. When the message goes into the 'Deleted Items' folder, highlight it and Click DELETE again in the menu bar. You will be asked if you want to permanently delete it, say YES!!!! It's gone for ever unopened causing you no bother or worry. This all sounds complicated but it becomes second nature and very easy in no time. Best of luck -Pat

Karen, Scam;; Look at your options,,,send them your bank details and see what happens>>>>>>please do what it deserves and delete it> this scam has been going on for few years now,,, Kay..

Hi Everyone, This is one email i received last night, i now know you where all right in what you all said and i am glad you have all helped me realise this! I have replied to this email saying ' I will no longer be continueing with this, i now know that this is all a scam and all you are after is my money, there is no winnings in this for me whatsoever, i will be forwarding all correspondance onto my Local Trading Standards, sorry but i am no fool!!! ' Did i do right in writing this? Kaz xx Dear Karen Smith, Base on the option you have choosen on how you want your winning prize to get to you, the charge is £1277.75 and you are to pay it so you winning prize will to couriered to in less than 48 hours. YOU ARE TO E-MAIL BACK HERITAGE COURIER SERVICE. (1)SENDER NAME(FIRST AND LAST NAME) (2)SENDER ADDRESS (3)MCTN(MONEY CONTROL TRANSFER NUMBER) (4)SCAN COPY OF PAYMENT SLIP. After which your money will be send couriered to you,please send us your contact address so we can courier your winning to you. Payment has to be don with in 4 working days to enable us arrange your file for claiming your money. Mr.Walam Jackson MANAGER. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 1GB! Get Yahoo! Mail | | | | | Inbox

Karen, you should never respond to these emails, they are only sent out randomly. You stand the chance of receiving even more now, either change your email address or download mailwasher and bounce them back. Ros Trading standards probably can't do anything as the emails are not generated from this country

Ros, i now know that i shouldnt of replied to it, i will learn ah? I thought by putting in the bit about trading standards that it may stop them from emailing me again, what is the web addy for mailwasher? Kaz xx

People on here told you not to reply to the emails By replying you are leaving yourself open to all sorts. Learn by your mistake, and as people have said, DELETE DELETE DELETE ! Elaine x

Hi Karen, below is the download for the free version, it won't work with webmail though. There is a paid version google mailwasher. See how you get on with the free version first. My spam after two years of mailwasher is almost nothing. Ros http://www(.)computeractive(.)co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128814/mailwasher

Harlowgirl, i know people had told me not to reply but before i posted on here i already had and that is why i put my thread on as i was worried. I now HAVE learnt my lesson and i WILL be deleting everything for here on, it was because it had said British Lottery i never gave it a thought usually i do deleted. What a fool i have been !!!! Kaz

Thanks Ros, i will do that straight away, thank you for your help!!! Kaz xx