Email seen on this site are sent from scammers who are trying to steal from people. It works, too, because there’s over 100,000 people all over the world earning a living from scamming people like this. Please take a moment to educate yourself on these scams and tell your friends and family about them so that you are safe from being scammed.

Due to the widespread use of web bugs in email, simply opening an email can potentially alert the sender that the address to which the email is sent is a valid address. This can also happen when the mail is ‘reported’ as spam, in

some cases: if the email is forwarded for inspection, and opened, the sender will be notified in the same way as if the addressee opened it.

E-mail fraud may be avoided by:

• keeping one’s e-mail address as secret as possible
• ignoring unsolicited e-mails of all types, simply deleting them.
• not giving in to greed, since greed is the element that allows one to be ‘hooked’.
• if you have been defrauded, report it to law enforcement authorities — many frauds go unreported, due to shame, guilty feelings or embarrassment.