My email has won and my cousin seven times removed has passed away.

I would suggest you do not respond to them and just delete them. Some of the emails are there in hope you respond and once you do they will send you more! More importantly is that some of the senders are very nasty people and it's better not to acknowledge them.

I always delete these type of emails when I get them. My spam filter picks up most of them now but one or two do get through. They must think I'm dumb or something that I would fall for something stupid like that! Some people have the nerve!

I get a bunch of spam emails , but not a huge amount in some of my emails. In my public emails , well business ones i get so much spam. About 90% of it is just spam, i hate it. We have a problem with spammers at our forum. Just recently we agreed to get rid of the spammers by contacting the host of the spammers website about them spamming. If you ever have problems with spam , just contact the host of the spam website. Simple as that , the host will take your threat seriously. Good luck.

Lo, yes, & I hit that delete button so fast! Do they really think people fall for those? They must or they wouldn't keep sending em ey?

We get them too!! We have won so many lotteries just lately I lost count of how many millions we have ha ha. Oh and all these kind strangers just keep deciding that they are going to leave the whole of their wealth to us even though they have never met us, but we are the first email address they came up with. Oh and the latest one is that someone entered me into something and I have won a heap of money to spend in a supermarket, I mean do you think that anyone actually ever falls for these things, I have heard stories of people that do but how?? I can see that they are rubbish so I cannot imagine anyone else falling for it all. When you answer the emails do they ever respond? We just send the mail where it deserves to go, in the computer trash can.

I do the same why if I believed any of them I would be a multi billionare but I learned one thing after having done as you did, told them it was all hoggswaggle, and oh my my spam tripled as if they had sent all their buddies out to get me so I am wondering if its not better just to delete them instead.Much as it does you good to get it off your chest nobody needs more spam.

I get these all the time. I ways mark it as spam. I know all they do is change their e-mail and they can still send it to me. I am like most of you if I did when as much money as my e-mail says I would not be liveing in this apartment and busting my butt off to pay my bills. I hope that one day they find a way to stop those people from doing this, it seems like the elderly are the ones that always get hit the hardest. And that makes it even more sad.

These types of emails are now automatically filtered into my spam box! I can't be bothered with them and I don't even want to see them, I periodically empty my trash box out, you have the patience to respond to them. I always ignore stuff I get on the internet if you start interacting with them then you get another barrel load of cr*p sent to you either that or they start getting nasty or use your email for other nefarious purposes. But don't spend all that money at once LOL!

I get tons of them. I email them a picture of a choking fish since that's what their doing, phishing.

We are all prone to receiving such email, kbougerie, and I have two methods of dealing with them: Sometimes I will report them to Fraudwatch, and sometimes I will just mark them as spam. I noticed that I don't get nearly so many since I began doing this.

HI Kbourgerie, I might have received such emails, but didn't know it, usually if I don't recognize the sender I don't open it, because it's a lot of viruses out there. alot of the unknown senders are redirected to my junk folder.

yes i do recieved emails that i won almost every other day..im fed up with it that even at yuwie one of my friend try to scam me about leaving an inheritance,,,

I think everybody receives such stupid emails..somebody warned me to open it as it may contain virus so I straight away send them to trash..There are endless such mails in junkmail which I dont open at all but in my inbox one or the other is there..I wonder why people waste their time & energy on such stupid things.

Begging and cheating are becoming a glorified and noble profession and the art is becoming more glorified, these people take advantage of inherent weakness of human nature. Removing our poverty by making us a millionare for a few seconds; I wonder how many times you have become a millioniare for few seconds and then again you are the same Nothing succeeds in life except hardlabour and diligence.

SPAMMERS SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY! What is very necessary to understand about spam is that these are bulk mailings to thousands of addresses at once. There are two ways of getting a list of addresses. One of the most common ways of doing this is to use software to generate the addresses - millions of them. When you receive one of these mailings it is not because the sender KNOWS your address. They don't and many of their mails go to addresses that don't exist. The second way for spammers to compile a list of addresses is for them to buy a list of known positives. Obviously this requires a little outlay on their part but it is probably well worth their while because they are much more likely to find a gullible person who takes them up on their offer. So how are these lists of 'known good' addresses compiled? In many ways, of course, but one of the most certain and valuable is when someone replies to a spam mail for whatever reason. This is the reason that it is a Golden Rule to NEVER reply to spam!

Well, the money they pretended I won must be enough to buy Mars, Venus and a couple of Jupiter's satellites... It's just a small waste of time - the time it takes for me to delete these mails...

I received it twice already. I just ignore it. It is a waste of time minding those people. They might put my money and life in danger. lol But seriously, I just don't mind it at all.

I have also receive that kind of email and now in gmail. I don't respond anymore to those kind of emails as I know very well those are scams. I have those kind of emails spam after I read. I have already proven those are scam when I reply to one of the email which I receive year ago using false personal data and later as we go along the process of exchanging emails, it ended up, he needs money for him to process the inheritance and he asked for a big amount and in Euro. Lol In the latest email I received, it said that I have a kin who just passed away and left inheritance. He needs me in order for him to cash out the money since I am the only living kin of the person. It is just unbelievable.

yes! always and it's really annoying. there are also mails telling me that a wealthy investor would like to make a transfer in my bank account because he/she is going in hiding. blah blah blah. that really annoys me. these people think that we are stupid to fall for scams like that.

Yes previously I too would get a hell lot of junk stuff which I would patiently delete sometimes I would feel great and respond to it specially readers digest they promise a lot and take you to stages and in the final stage which you wait so patiently getting frustrated all they reply that there is one more stage for you to go so please buy this novels we are giving you at so and so rate and I foolishly would respond as I have come so far one more step wont matter....But if I see one I just delete without a second thought as these people use our email address to make money.