Beware of Email Scams Prevalent on the Internet

The author has received several scam emails from different sources. These scam emails contain different subjects - some have selected you to give huge sum of money as reward just for doing nothing, some royal families just want to transfer their million dollars in your bank account. All these emails are a fraud. Their ultimate intention is to take your hard earned money in form of bank transaction fee or parcel or postal fee. They will require you to give them their credit card numbers. So, to deal with these sort of email, only rule of thumb is delete them mercilessly. Second good action you can take is REPORT details about the scam email to authorities like yahoo or gmail or msn from WHICHEVER CLIENT you get scam email.

These scam emails contains very persuasive and attention grabbing headlines. I am repeating one of the email below for your information.

COPY EXCERPTS SCAM EMAIL NO.1

YAHOO NOKIA E-LOTTERY

We are delighted to inform you that your E-mail
has won you 750,000.00 pounds (Seven Hundred And
Fifty Thousand pounds) in our International E-mail
program which was held on January 2009 in UK.

Yahoo collect all the active E-mail users in the
internet including Hotmail, Msn,Gmail, Rediffmail,etc.
and your email was among the lucky winners selected.

Your parcel order number is SNT66774

You are to contact the skynet courier shipping company
for delivery of your winning prize to your door step.

SKYNET COURIER EXPRESS CONTACT

COPY EXCERPTS SCAM EMAIL NO.2

Dear Customer!
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the
details given below:
FedEx Delivery Post
Contact Person: Frank Christ
Email: fedex-delivery08@hotmail.com
Tel: :+2347033035013

Reasons:This is due to the fact that a friend of yours left a parcel
containing a Bank Draft of $1,050,000.00 and A Letter for you.You are to
act fast by providing the information requested below to enable us make
the delivery ASAP......
This will help you avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of
your country.However, you will have to pay a sum of $200.70 to the FedEx
Delivery Department being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the
FedEx company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page

To be continued in the next post.

So PLEASE BE AWARE OF THESE SCAM EMAILS AND NEVER PAY ANY HEAD TO WHATEVER THEY SAY.