Email Fraud and Email Scams are being sent to blanket emails in attempts to defraud, phishing, scam, and even steal your identity.
Our goal is to provide you with information and search material to detect and protect yourself from these scammers and fraudsters.
If you have responded or entered into one of the email scams, Nigerian email fraud, or any other of these scams, you should consider some sort of Credit protection, or Identity Protective Services along with some making sure your computer’s Virus protection is up to date.
Spotting the email scams is easier than you think.
If and When you receive a fraud email or suspect an email is a fraud, you can search our database which contains numerous emails and email addresses from scammers. The best way to search is by entering the email address you received the fraud email from, as we post their email addresses along with the content of the email that was sent out.
These email scams come in forms and shapes. Remember they designed these to make you believe the information they are providing is real – they will try their best!
How did they get my Email address?
Most of the time these spammers or scammers get your email address by harvesting email addresses mentioned on websites and forums. Others run “dictionary attack” programs which query mail servers, or send out random emails to see which ones are live emails and which ones bounce back. That’s why you get tons of unsolicited commercial email even if you’ve kept your email address a secret. Most of the time spammers sell each other CD’s with millions of addresses.
The Goal of most Scammers:
Most of these email scams are a bait with fictional millions of dollars. The scammer tries to lure you in promising large sums of money to help them, all the time their goal is to extract a money from you as there are “expenses” associated with collecting the funds. Each demand for more money is claimed to be the very last obstacle before the big money is released, until you stop sending money – then the scammer disappears with your money.
There are numerous types and style of email fraud, with many trying to claim they are coming from a real authority agency, or even your bank!
Aside from how annoying it is to constantly receive these emails, there are more things to worry about than just some scammer trying to lure you in with millions of dollars. There are several of these scams that go a step further – they provide links in the emails that if opened can direct your browser to specially designed pages that run and install programs in your computer. These programs can not just send the scammers your personal information, but also track, record and send back to the scammers any and every keystroke you type into your keyboard. Can you imagine what these scammers can you with all that information – all your passwords, all your personal information?
These Email Fraud and Email Scams are very serious issues and can cause un-measureable damage to your financial status. When you receive these fraud emails, let us know by using our Report Email Fraud page. We will post them for others to have access and the ability to protect themselves from these scammers.
But Scam and Fraud do not just happen over email. There are several websites and forums that are designed to scam you – and even some popular ones that are used to scam people. Craigslist and several other classifieds websites have been recent targets for scammers. Next time you are see an offer or product that is too good to believe, no you did not just get lucky, you might be walking into another scam!
