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Stop SPAM eMail Once & For All : Free Guide
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Ignore
The Chain Letters
This is a small
matter but one that I felt had to be included somewhere in
this document. Many days do we all receive that chain letter
in our email inbox. Just like when you receive them at home,
you are expected to forward them to a certain number of people
if you don’t want to have bad luck.
Often these emails
tell you that some person ignored their chain letter and
they had been hit by a car or something, and that those who
sent the email won the lottery or something like that. These
emails are also spam.
I don’t know of
one person that had bad luck simply by ignoring the chain
letter. Actually their luck improved because the spammers
stopped sending that particular email. There was one particular
spam mail that is used quite a bit and it gets more and more
popular by the day. It works similar to a chain letter.
This email is
sent by a “lawyer” that insists that the email is a promotion
for Microsoft’s Bill Gates. It basically states that if you
send the email to as many people as you can you will receive
a check from Microsoft for helping them with their promotion.
It also states
that you receive a check that is bigger if the people you
send the emails to send them to others. Of course it then
tells you that if it is a scam, what have you really lost,
but that if it’s true, you can earn some money.
No matter what
your chain letters say, DO NOT OPEN THEM! They are lies.
By forwarding these types of emails, you are helping the
spammers get even more viable email addresses. And since
you are forwarding them to your friends, you have just allowed
the spammers to get their claws on them too. Your friends
will not thank you.
The
Pleas from Down and Out Strangers
You have to admire
the spammers interest in pulling at the heart strings in
order to get your attention. These are the emails that come
from strangers that are from some foreign country who are
just looking for “donations” from kind people so that they
can finish college or get an operation they desperately need.
These emails are
always extremely polite and come from seemingly educated
individuals who just need help to make their dreams come
true. People must be falling for it since they are still
coming out in full force.
You must beware
of these pleas for help because they are generally just spam
scams. Think about it, how desperate can these people be
for money if they can afford to mass email complete strangers?
I don’t any person who is that poor but can afford a computer
and the internet. Do you ever notice that none of these people
even give you a viable home address?
Anyway, this is
just a sample of a spam scam; there will be more on this
in the next section.
 
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