bogus emails

[ginfran]

i have just had a email saying i have won money and to send them details to amsterdam.luckily i know its a fraud but some people wont.can i complain to anyone to stop this.

[southerngirl]

I would take the email to the police as they may beaware of this and investigating already.

[vehelpfulguy]

I am afraid there is not much you can do. The police will not be interested.

Most people get e-mails like this all the time. I get 2 or 3 e-mails a day from HSBC or Halifax asking me to go and update my online banking site, and I have not even got one.

This is called SPAM and it is the scourge of the internet.

http://spam.abuse.net/

Most of these companies send out thousands of these e-mails every day. They do it from other countries like Russia or Africa so it is very difficult for anyone to track them down and stop it.

You are right that some people do not know it is fraud and they get sucked in.

Just warn all your friends and relatives who may not be computer savvy to NEVER reply to one of these e-mails.

[doddsredoubt]

ginfran,go to your own internet provider and tell them about it,I had one about two weeks ago and sent it to my internet provider.