Been getting a lot of "phishing" emails lately

Portland (St. Johns), Oregon

May 20, 2009 @ 16:49:35

All of a sudden I'm getting lots of "phishing" emails. You know, the ones that say they have $12.5 million they need to transfer and I'll get 60% by helping them.

So, I show the full headers, copy, paste that into an email and forward it to these two places:

@us- cert.gov">phishing-report @us- cert.gov

@antiphishing. org">reportphishing @antiphishing. org

Maybe they'll get shut down.

This is for you scammers

J.R.

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xTeddyx

Teddy Hugs

On my mind, Georgia

#2

May 20, 2009 @ 16:52:20

I hope so cause i get at least 6 to 8 daily

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jonnythan

Bringer of rad mirth

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Here and there,

#3

May 20, 2009 @ 16:52:28

They won't get shut down. They're almost exclusively overseas and there's ultimately little to nothing that can be done about them.

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sweetheart5545

, Florida

#4

May 20, 2009 @ 16:52:30

@jr_sanford Said

All of a sudden I'm getting lots of "phishing" emails. You know, the ones that say they have $12.5 million they need to transfer and I'll get 60% by helping them.

So, I show the full headers, copy, paste that into an email and forward it to these two places:

@us- cert.gov">phishing-report @us- cert.gov

@antiphishing. org">reportphishing @antiphishing. org

Maybe they'll get shut down.

This is for you scammers

J.R.

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04EXCURSION

long beach, California

#5

May 20, 2009 @ 16:53:30

I've been getting a bunch of that ebay lately, my last two listing were closed due to phishing

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xTeddyx

Teddy Hugs

On my mind, Georgia

#6

May 20, 2009 @ 16:54:20

@jonnythan Said

They won't get shut down. They're almost exclusively overseas and there's ultimately little to nothing that can be done about them. [/QUOT!

Thats to bad

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#7

May 20, 2009 @ 17:32:26

This is from the yahoo address where i direct all spam.

Yahoo is really bad with the whole spam filter thing. Gmail and Hotmail are way better at it

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jonnythan

Bringer of rad mirth

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Here and there,

#8

May 20, 2009 @ 17:34:55

That's everything that got through in a 2-month period?

Pretty good if you ask me, especially since almost half of the emails there aren't spam.

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glassman55

Deleted

Dingwall, United Kingdom

#9

May 20, 2009 @ 17:35:41

@KulliK357 Said

This is from the yahoo address where i direct all spam.

Yahoo is really bad with the whole spam filter thing. Gmail and Hotmail are way better at it

A guy replied to when you said to him 'CAN I TRUST YOU?'

.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#10

May 20, 2009 @ 17:39:18

@jonnythan Said

That's everything that got through in a 2-month period?

Pretty good if you ask me, especially since almost half of the emails there aren't spam.

Suppose but compared to Gmail and Hotmail thats a lot. (btw thats the normal inbox not the spam inbox)
Theres also the fact i barely use yahoo for anything and just put things like CNet there because i know they are going to keep sending me pointless updates.

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sugarflyguy

Pro-Pho-tographer

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Leaving TFS today:), United Ki

#11

May 20, 2009 @ 17:56:53

@KulliK357 Said

This is from the yahoo address where i direct all spam.

Yahoo is really bad with the whole spam filter thing. Gmail and Hotmail are way better at it

I got a Lillian frank one

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Tako_400

Keep Ya' Head Up

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Beirut, Lebanon

#12

May 20, 2009 @ 17:59:37

I'm getting the constant instant messenger messages that are sent by viruses. It kills me to see how helpless some people are.....

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billy_gill

toronto,

#13

Jun 19, 2009 @ 21:38:20

ever heard of Mailwasher? It works with your e-mail client. you can put a check in every spam you get & then you will not receive any. Mailwasher blocks everything you don't want downloaded into your main e-mail box. you can actually read what is on your server before you download it. so you don't have to download every thing on your server, just put a checkmark in delete, then click process mail & your outlook express or whatever popsup with only the mail you want. the checkmark ones will not download, they delete by themselves.
Mailwasher is a must have program. It's from Firetrust & you can find it by typing in Mailwasher in Google. I don't want to use the main linx as I just joined here.

Hope this helps

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Edited: June 19, 2009 @ 21:41

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