I wanted to bring attention that there is a scammer that goes by the name of Sgt. Hansen Charles Stanley. I wanted to warn people about him and to NOT reply to him. It is an email from a "Military Sgt." requesting for you to hold 25 Million dollars. I recently got this email, and would like to notify others of this. Please be wary of this, fellow people of MyM. I wish no one will or has replied with personal info. Hopefully you are all smart enough to not give out personal info. Sincerely- Death008u
I had a laugh at this. Some of these "scams" are not really scams. They are more like incriminating deals. They want you to hold money then return it to them, Its called money laundering. In the early 90's my friend got caught up with the Yakuza, They gave him 500k and asked for 495k back. after a few times.... he ended up in jail.... lol If i can give anyone here any advice... it would be this. Have more then 1 Email account. i will list below examples. Account 1 for gaming. [email protected] Account 2 for random stuff. [email protected] Account 3 for Facebook/twitter, [email protected] Accout 4 for Personal and family [email protected] Make sure to never cross streams... if you manage your accounts, you will know what is real and what is fake. Also if your getting any emails like the OP posted... you might want to clean you PC, you have given your info to a shady site and 9/10 times they have infected your pc with Keyloggers...ect.
419 scams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Usually its "Hello, I am the son/daughter of a powerful banker/CEO/Politician in a small developing nation, who recently died/was overthrown/exploded into candy" ... I get these all the time (my primary misc hotmail account is like ancient...like started when hotmail was new, kind of ancient). Your email gets bought and sold across the internet on an almost hourly basis, unless you've never created one. Its going to happen. Even reputable sites have sold emails. its just another avenue for profit for some businesses. Also, there are a LOT of web bots out there just scraping sites for email addresses. If you don't KNOW if an email is a scam - google it. If the email tells you specifically not to google it - scam.
