Scully Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 It was quite funny for a while but am now getting around one email per day from miscellaneous persons suffering from all manner of complaints from terminal cancer to domestic violence regarding how I can help them by allowing them to put millions of dollars into my bank account. The novelty has worn off. How come I've started getting these more often and how do I stop them? Changing email address isn't an option. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Sounds suspiciously like you've been single-handed web browsing recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Do you disable all your cookies periodically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Seriously though, its very difficult to stop them as your email has found its way onto a list. You may be able to block messages with certain key words I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) I still get loads of toot from when I signed up to this half baked painters forum, supposedly they were touting for work and regularly advertising for painters, little did anyone know that they were collecting data and selling the info on to all sorts. thankfully it all ends up in the spam folder and gets beaten with the delete stick Edited March 25, 2015 by Paddy Galore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Ah, there you are Mr Scully. I am a bank merchant what am working in Nigeria. Recently am bin given 10 millions of you pounds and I is looking for de UK account holder to transfer de money to........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Maybe its your avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Ah, there you are Mr Scully. I am a bank merchant what am working in Nigeria. Recently am bin given 10 millions of you pounds and I is looking for de UK account holder to transfer de money to........ I had one signed off as Sir Dr kolo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmydean Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thankfully I dont get many of these and not much spam generally, on average maybe 1 a day. I don't surf that much and limit e-mail contacts to a few and have 2 e-mail addresses one for crud and one for 'best'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Here's one way of handling them Scully.. do what this guy does. http://www.419eater.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted March 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Maybe its your avatar. Can't be, I've just changed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 It was quite funny for a while but am now getting around one email per day from miscellaneous persons suffering from all manner of complaints from terminal cancer to domestic violence regarding how I can help them by allowing them to put millions of dollars into my bank account. The novelty has worn off. How come I've started getting these more often and how do I stop them? Changing email address isn't an option. Cheers. Just stop googling naked men dancing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted March 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Here's one way of handling them Scully.. do what this guy does. http://www.419eater.com/ Looks like fun, cheers. Knowing my luck it'll be a scam. Just stop googling naked men dancing I blame spellchecker; I googled knackered men dancing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 It's a problem isn't it. I find that if I google too much porn my spam goes up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Can't be, I've just changed it. Good so things should be ok now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Looks like fun, cheers. Knowing my luck it'll be a scam. Defo not a scam, join up, it's free, & go to the Letter Archive, some of them are a hoot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul sullivan Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Here's one way of handling them Scully.. do what this guy does. http://www.419eater.com/ they are brilliant the church of the red breast an the scammers fell for it Brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 I reckon it's FishermanMike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 they are brilliant the church of the red breast an the scammers fell for it Brilliant I remember reading that one, another that springs to mind is the scammer that had a quarry full of dilithium crystals that power the star ship enterprise.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Maybe if you hadn't sent money to the first 13 emails, the others wouldn't bother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyatt Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 What domain is your email address with (bit after '@')? There maybe built in software that can assist you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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