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NEVER send them back, that way the spammers know they've been received. I have a dial up BTYahoo email and their Spam Guard is extremely effiecient. I have two email addys and the old one gets about 80 spams a day but BT removes them all and I hardly get more than a couple of them through to Outlook E. I still keep this old addy because its on a website - that's why it gets spam. My new addy (and my husband's) never get any spam because they are not on any searchable place. If you get masses of spam try this trick - keep the old addy for public and make a new one for private. You will know that almost non of the emails on the old addy is real and can just delete the lot each time if your Spam Guard is not very efficient. Anne

any odd ones, I delete em, otherwise the sender knows you are there. Joy

I do have Wanadoo and Norton as i say i have been bouncing back to sender as someone on here surgested a few months ago. Is it best just to delete or bounce back ?????? Val

If you want a laugh go to this website. It appears that some of these scammers really don't have the ability to outwit some people. Go to http://www.419eater.)com/ and click on the letters archive. Enjoy!

I get that few times, every other month - I'm so glad of AOL's spam folder as it goes straight there so I can delete it safely.. OK maybe 1 or 2 slipped thru the spam folder but that doesnt worry me because I can always delete it from there :oD T

I get a lot on the ntl up to 300 a day and with viruses. I have Norton AV installed which deletes the viruses. Have a filter set but it is the usually fare as listed on this message board. Also use Yahoo which blocks a lot and if they do get through allows you to delete it as spam and is blocked next time. The world is too connected which is good for sharing genealogy and bad because of the ease of spam spreading!

I get about 3 every day, asking if I want to enlarge it. Even though I am female. And they actualy put in the title all the different name for it.

I had a similar one recently. Tend to read the first line and delete. They seem to do the round quite regularly. Generally go into my junk mail. If these people spent the time and effort doing something legitimatley will would all be better off Diane

I too get about 20 e-mails aday from people who say they are facing persecution there country and would like to deposite money in your bank account ,people selling software,pills and potions ,the one that is annoying me most is from all differant people saying re appoinment on such and such day.The worst one,s are the one,s which say that they are from banks and wanting your account number,the latest one is from Visa .I hasten to add i do not open any of them they go straight into my junk mailbox and i bounce back to sender. Val

Wanadoo, thank goodness, block most rubbish, in fact 99% of them go straight in the junk mail folder in the website - I do check to make sure there's no good stuff there. However, just received this. Joy "Goodday, I am Steve Kelly, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management three years ago.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.In the year 2000, the subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Thirty million united states dollars,which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case, I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed.I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route in my advise to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on my advice, We spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over ten million United States Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments. In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in here in the united kingdom. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm. I informed him that SMITH & WILLIAMSON would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not tocircumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking of us. Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the funds available to the security firm. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited with the security firm. The Security Firm is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small and highly private organization is familiar especially to the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money was deposited with the security firm.The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication we had, this transpired around 25th February 2003.In June last year, we got a call from the security firm informing us that the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit at the security firm, and I could not understand why the deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of SMITH& WILLIAMSON. Four days later, information started to trickle in,apparently our client was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in canne,in Southern part of France.We were soon enough to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity,but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private banking, opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held under a name;depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin. Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; the deceased died without a testate. In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine who should have right to claim the estate. This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful.We have scanned every continent and used our private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem. It is this investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details as a possible relative of the deceased. My official capacity dictates that I am the only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to receive the results of the investigation.What this means, you being the last batch of names we have considered, is that our dear late fellow died with no known or identifiable family member. This leaves me as the only person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit. According to practice, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON,failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON.This will result in the money entering the SMITH & WILLIAMSON accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private banking division. This will not happen if I have my way.What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose.There is Thirty million dollars deposited in a security firm, I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as SMITH & WILLIAMSON is concerned. The transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The security Firm has no single idea of what?s the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that come forward. This is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man?s family; they have investigated for months and have found no family.The investigation has come to an end. My proposal; you share the same surname With our late

I have over 800 email addresses in my address book. I am the webmaster for 5 websites on which my email address is available to all the bots that roam the web. I get over 100 spam emails aday offering everying to making me HUGE to selling me Meds/drugs of all kinds as well as cheap software, plus unlimited love. One just has to go with the flow. My spam killer only picks up about 25% of the spam. Wayne

BASICALLY , MY B/F GOT A VERY SIMILAR EMAIL A WHILE AGO FROM 'LOME TOGO'...THE GUY SAID HE WOULD PAY £1000,000 OR SOMETHING IF HE (MY B/F) FLEW OVER TO THE PLACE AND DEPOSITED MONEY IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT FOR THE GUY. DEFFINATELY A SCAM, WHICH WE DIDN'T FALL FOR. THE CHEEK OF SOME PPL, HUH! LOL LISA

Any time you leave any trace anywhere (unless on a secure site) someone can pick up the trace and send an e-mail. I get lots of junk and often it has something in the sender's name or the title relating to something I've posted elsewhere. I used to get concerned I was being specially targetted, but now I just shrug and delete. Very tedious. nell

Had something similar yesterday. Getting to many of them. Pat

Makes one wonder how they get so personal. Joy

From:Barrister Bello Louman, 56 Rue Boulevard Djankasse B.P.50214 Lome-Togo. Tel#00228 922 8562 Private Email:[email protected], Attn: Wayne Lawrence I am contacting you for the claim of your late Uncle's fund that was deposited with the Atlas Trust Security Finance Company. I must solicit your confidence in this claim,this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential.Though I know that contact of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that all will be well since i know everything about your late uncle's deposited fund as his personal advocate.I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter.Let me start by introducing myself properly to you.I am Barrister Bello Louman the Advocate to your late Uncle Engr.Greg F.Lawrence a contractor with the Federal Government of lome-togo,until his death some years ago in Kenya Air Bus (A310-300) Flight KQ430,deposited with the Atlas Trust Security Finance Company lome-togo and had a closing balance as at the end of June, 2003 worth US$20,000,000.00( Twenty Million United States Dollars). The security company now expects the Next of Kin to come forward as the Beneficiary and heir apperent to his estate.Efforts have been made by the Atlas Trust Security Finance Company lome-togo to get in touch with any of the Deceased Family or Relatives,but they have met with no success.Now the management under the influence of the security finance company Chairman and Members of the Board of directors that arrangement has been made for the fund to be declared Unclaimed In order to avert this negative development, it is my duty to contact you since your name was listed as the next of kin to his properties. All documents and proof to enable you claim your inheritance will be carefully worked out by me for your inheritance claim to be successfully transfered into your nominated bank account.I have secured from the probate an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.Now it is left for you decide on what you will give as my percentage for assisting you in your inheritance claim.I hope to hear from you soon or call me immediately you receive this mail on this phone no 00228 922 8562.You can contact me through my private email below. Yours Sincerely, Barrister Bello. Private email:[email protected]

Just got this SCAM email. Thought I would post it here. As it has a Genealogical connection. For the record I dont have an Uncle Lawrence as my father was an only child. Wayne Lawrence