List of Email Scams -- Wikipedia

[dbcomputers01]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_email_scams

"Online Dating Scam"... I honestly do not know how some of these actually work on people... Has anyone ever seen one of these before. My cousin fell for a lottery claim scam in the mail... She got a letter saying that she won $10,000 and she called all excited. About 2 1/2 hours later, she called again saying she just done talking to the police because the checks were fraudulent...

[jwallbank]

I wish there were a Wikipedia for list of scammers. There are definately enough of them out there. You've got to be on top of your game and watch what online channels you go to. I have known alot of people that re receiving calls that they owe this company or that company money. You've really got to be careful!!!

[preet5755]

They send you an email first that you have won some money and then ask you to send your name and location if you want to claim the money. After that they ask you to come somewhere to pick them up, bring some money and get your money ( which is in a suitcase and apparently only you get the code to open up the suitcase). I think some people fall for that and go over to meet them and loose all their money and don't even get anything. Too bad these people actually do that.

[mary_k]

Never fall for  mail or email that states you have won a lottery, they are all a scam. The only way you win a lottery is if you yourself play one.

[lywb2168]

I never open an email from something or someone I do not know, my mother got an email threatening her life, they provided personal information, like name, address and family members and told her to not contact the police, but that if she did not give them $50,000 by the end of the week one by one of her family members would die.  She call the police and they said that they had received a few calls for the same email, they kept an eye, but nothing ever happened, the police said that it was an scam and that th FBI already had an eye on the culprits.  My mother is on her late 60s and it scared the s...t out of her.  I told her next time if you do not know the sender do not open.  But sadly this people send emails from your own contacts, this hackers are horrible.

[ladavia89]

I get scam emails all the time. I get at least one a day saying I've either won a large amount of money or that I've been approve for a loan of a large sum. I've never gotten anything threatening but I also don't open emails that look fake

[Skyisbluetoday]

I don't open any email  that look's suspicious! Very scary to think about. 

[dbcomputers01]

I never open an email from something or someone I do not know, my mother got an email threatening her life, they provided personal information, like name, address and family members and told her to not contact the police, but that if she did not give them $50,000 by the end of the week one by one of her family members would die.  She call the police and they said that they had received a few calls for the same email, they kept an eye, but nothing ever happened, the police said that it was an scam and that th FBI already had an eye on the culprits.  My mother is on her late 60s and it scared the s...t out of her.  I told her next time if you do not know the sender do not open.  But sadly this people send emails from your own contacts, this hackers are horrible.

That is just plain awful. The people that do these things make me sick.

[crazyzoo]

USPS use to have a thing on their site that gave a list of recent scams and frauds I'm not sure they still do there should be something out there I got a 10,000 dollar check I took to the police department the pocice officer  just laughed and said burn it what ever wow I was shocked but he said its too hard to find these guys! OK???

[sgluckadoo]

I get scam emails all the time. I get at least one a day saying I've either won a large amount of money or that I've been approve for a loan of a large sum. I've never gotten anything threatening but I also don't open emails that look fake

Ditto. I also get them regarding sex. I guess scammers think you will open anything that offers free money or free sex!

[ladycasshmere]

Oh I have see plenty. The one I always see in my inbox is the letter saying Im going to get a check from some settlement

[nycgal85]

Ya I get those scams email too I just read it and just laugh it off. They dis show call What would you do n there did one about a lady who talk to a guy who claim he will give her some amount of money n than people was hearing it n da guy said I will brb n than some people came on da computer n told her that they don't think it a good idea to do that n there was one other show these people told da news guy who was helping them that they is dis guy n he will give us dis amount of money n than da news guy I think his name was Chris n Chris met da guy who claim they he will give them da money n than after that Chris said actually my name is Chris n Im from da news n Chris said were u actually going to pay da people da money n he said yes n than da people say he never gave them da money n than they found da guy n arrested him.

[Zhongmou]

I only ever email one or two people, so anything else that happens to popup in my inbox is deleted. Most people text and facebook nowadays.

It's awful that people are still doing the lottery scams.

[Onlinedou2]

Don't believe stuff tats to good to be true online and offline.

[dkanofsky]

Unfortunately,as long as there are people who fall for this garbage, the scams will continue.