Mail order scam

[Thisguy]

Did you get a "Dear Friend" email from a person trying to get you to help them get their money out of the country? I hate to break it to you, but those are scams. I get about a million of those junk emails in my yahoo mailbox everyday. I don't know what their game is, but I'm willing to bet it's something illegal.

Yeah...RockyMtnNFO made a funny

On another note, most people shred/toss all those credit card applications they get in the mail. Not me, I stuff everything (including the envelope it came in) back in the pre-paid envelope and send it back. I figure someone has to open it.

 

[Zilch]

Yeah...RockyMtnNFO made a funny

On another note, most people shred/toss all those credit card applications they get in the mail. Not me, I stuff everything (including the envelope it came in) back in the pre-paid envelope and send it back. I figure someone has to open it.

That is brilliant. I'm totally doing that from now on.

 

[lowflier03]

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

The great p-p-powerbook retaliation on a scammer.

 

[D_mac05]

If you report it as spam (using the provided button) in lieu of just blocking it, there's no limit and it helps refine Yahoo's own internal spam filter. I get very little actual spam on Yahoo in my inbox, but get 100-200 spam emails that get directed right into the trash.

Brett

Actually, every time I get those emails, I hit the "SPAM" button. I set it up where, every time I hit the SPAM button, it deletes the message, notifies Yahoo that it is spam, and blocks the email for good. It's weird, because I've already blocked ~400 addresses, and they're still coming (every one of those have been reported as spam). I guess it doesn't take much to set up a new email address, does it.

 

[Brett327]

Actually, every time I get those emails, I hit the "SPAM" button. I set it up where, every time I hit the SPAM button, it deletes the message, notifies Yahoo that it is spam, and blocks the email for good. It's weird, because I've already blocked ~400 addresses, and they're still coming (every one of those have been reported as spam). I guess it doesn't take much to set up a new email address, does it.

Yeah, they've got it down to a science, randomizing first and last names, etc. They have bots that scour the internet for addys. Some of them I receive have 100 other yahoo addys in the CC that start with "Brett." Maybe I'm just more discrete with my addy, but it's not a big issue for me. I may get one or two per day that slip through.

Brett

 

[Zilch]

Maybe that's why I've avoided that stuff, my last name's pretty unusual.