How can I stop emails from people in foreign countries asking for personal banking information?
472600
Stay off the chat rooms they are lurking, but aren't they kewl, all the same, terrible that family was in a car wreck and everyone was killed and their last name is the same as your.Send same letter to them just replace your name with theirs and their name with yours.HIT THE SPAM BUTTON
1105695
Ask the receiver to login in the provider's website and quote your sender e-mail address as "wanted" - that should be easy.\n\nProbably e-mails of your provider are considered as spam by the Indian provider.
236743
A less dramatic and more realistic explanation is that the country your familiy is sending from is being blocked by your E-mail provider.\n\nMany providers block large portions of China and Koreaa, for example, as they are notoriously lenient on spammers, and many spammers send their email through those hosts.\n\nEven if the entire country is not blocked, many places block IP address ranges that host or have hosted spammers. \n\nAlso, sometimes "foreign" fonts or character sets will set off automatic blocks or redirects.\n\nI'd check first with your email provider, see if they use block lists, and ask if you can 'whitelist" specific addresses from your family. \n\nAs well, if you can, put your family addresses on a 'recognized' list (or whatever it is called on your email) to make sure they aren't just blocked or sent as spam.
399947
One of the scams is to ask that you 'become' someone's heir i.e. family member for a person that has died and left millions of dollars in a foreign bank. Then they ask you to transfer the money to your account but you are not suppose to tell anyone of the transaction. They ask for a passport picture and other personal information. They tell you that you will get a percentage for your participation.\n\nIf you see this type of email, DON'T DO IT!
47242
You're email account cannot be used in any way to cost you money or purchase things.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
1063948
You can't.  And it is not wise to just give our your e-mail address.  Now people will spam you continuously.  Be careful.
273878
You can use the filters on yahoo. I know what you mean I get the people from Nigeria emailing me all the time the filters don't work for them though. But you can look through there and saee if theres something in there that might help.
509532
Simple dont tell your address to anybody. Block all your friends email id on that account.
901026
It's a scam to get your personal information from you.  If you respond, there will start asking for your bank account information, etc.  They might ask for a "processing fee" to get the money to you.  It is a total scam.  Thing about it for a minute:  did you enter any foreign lotteries?  Probably not.  I get about about a dozen of these emails per week and they all go into my spam folder.
96456
"The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about the Nigerian scam. It says: "If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria — or any other country, for that matter — forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov."\n\nThe United States Department Of The Treasury advises "You may also email the 419er documents, especially any banking data they may have given you, marked as described above, to Task Force Main in DC 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov; that is also acceptable."
583489
If the email is someone trying to tell you to help them with some bank deal and you'll make a lot of money, just mark it as spam.  A complete scam and I can't imagine that anyone would read it and think "oh, this sounds like a good idea, let me provide them with my bank account"
678392
I get them also. Don't respond to them (even in anger) and after a while it slows down. I have a spam filter with Nortons Internet Security and it diverts them into a spam folder.\nYour email client should be able to filter out emails using key words such as 'Nigeria' etc. Check out the options.\nCheers
11328
Only you can decide the level of sensitivity for your communication. Personally, I do not use email for credit card numbers and similar, but pretty much everything else.
71107
avoid responding many of forward mails such as \n"in 5 minutes send it 20 people" they are getting ur adress in that way so u are getting involved in spam mails.
107984
It is a scam to try and steal your banking information or credit card information.  It is a process called 'phishing'.  If they do not get your banking information, but you reply to the message or click on their link, you will have validated your e-mail address as a valid address and they will sell your address to spammers.
1022981
Oh, I have seen grammar like this before. I am going to take a stab in the dark and say I bet it originated out of someplace in Africa, but I won't mention any countries by name. It sounds like a scam all right. The last time I got a message like that, I said something like, "Please take me off your email list. If you contact me again, I will have to forward your information on to my friend, who is an agent in the FBI. He is doing a special project in tracking people who are involved in international fraud schemes, and he would be really interested in knowing more about you." Believe, me I never heard from the individual ever again.
238442
let me see... uh. u email the owner or one of the complaintspeople.\n\nhttps://login.passport.net/ppsecure/uisecure.srf?lc=1033&id=10\n\nI think that should work