heheheh LuaBlanca....that's funny.
I get the Nigerian heir who wants me to help him launder money e-mail ALL THE TIME. It's amazing how many persecuted Nigerian millionaires there are out there!
Someone mentioned the website you can visit to read funny accounts of how people responded to the scammers' e-mails. These scam mail recipients posed as English royalty, tv characters and such in an attempt to have a bit of fun with the scammers. Here's the link!
http://www.scamorama.com/
I myself use the CIAC Hoaxbusters and also the Snopes websites (linked to in previous posts) to help educate some of my friends and colleagues regarding lame forwarded e-mails.
On a slightly different note, if your friend sends you an e-greeting card from "newfunpages.com"
don't click on the link to view it! The e-greeting card is real; my friend really did send me a greeting. However, this website is specifically set up to harvest e-mail addresses for spam purposes. Immediately after receiving the e-greeting I started getting a FLOOD of spam from newfunpages.com. Grr! It was only then I realized that newfunpages wasn't on the up and up. If you want to send an e-greeting, go to yahoo greetings or americangreetings.com. DON'T give your friend's e-mail address to a spam harvester!
.....Kelly
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