phishing scams Question And Answer
Best way to deal with phishing scams?
Is there a better way to deal with phising emails rather than just deleting them? They are so irritating, and come so very often even if they go straight to junkboxes, I can't believe people actually fall for the Nigerian 'inheritance' notifications or 'International lottery wins' - do people really fall for these??? Is it worth replying sending huge attachments to block up their mail boxes or replying to pretend you have fallen for the scam and waste their time for as long as you can? Is there a software programme that deals with them in such a way that their time is wasted and it is no longer profitable to have masses of people being paid to sit in a room in Africa sending out scam mails to any email address they can find? I am sooooooooo irritated by this, I feel I ought to do something more than just ignore it and delete.
I use yahoo email and my pc has virgin PC guard and also I have Norton. It's my yahoo address they all go to, some in junk some in my inbox.
Answers
what internet virus protection are you using?
most of em u can't, I just report them.. or block certain keywords so all the emails bounce.
scammer baiting is a fun sport, which was fun although with that you have to be careful, I used to give them totally wrong information back. Just be careful what sites you click on and delete em and you'll be fine.
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Deleting is the best way - if you try to reply they know the address you have is active so you'll get even more junk sent through.And yes, people do fall for these scams - the perpetrators send out thousands of e-mails. If they get just a handful of people who fall for it - they'll make money. Remember it costs relatively little to send e-mails to multiple addresses.
People do get trapped and there is no solution to prevent the menance.
