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How To Identify An Email Scam |
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How do you know it's a scam? Here's a few ways to identify a potential email scam. Here's a few ways you can do it.
1. The "from", "reply to" as well as the email they ask you to respond to in the body of the message are almost always different on all three counts.
2. You receive the same type of message from many senders (spammers/scammers).
3. The "To" (you) email address is "Undisclosed recipients", which means it's been sent to a long list of other email addresses as well as yours.
4. The address they want you to reply to is almost always a gmail, hotmail, live and even yahoo or some other free email service account.
And then there's the common sense approach:
A) There are lawyers that can take care of these things WITHOUT YOUR help.
B) Hmmmmm... They sent it to a list of emails, which means I'm not the only one offered the "opportunity"
c) Why am I replying to a "<insert free email service here>" address when it appears to be coming from somewhere else?
D) How the hell did they even know my email address exists? And why do they never address me by name and always ask for enough information to steal my identity, yet they have gone out of their way to find me out?
You're free to contact them if you choose, but if you're asked for money to get that "prize", "inheritance" or those "funds", you should ask yourself if you're prepared to lose your money. |
