On the Scam List/Help me get off

[alioop]

I have read with great interest all of the scams that are posted here and at other sites. I seem to be on the list all over the world as a person that would participate in these. To be honest, I came very close to falling for the secret shopper scam. The check that they sent to me was from my home state and I happened to call the bank. These crooks are very sneaky though, the phone number on the check was answered Bank of ...., may I help you. Even had different options to push, but it didn't matter what option you hit, or if you played the game asking for the loan department for a car loan. I however, looked the phone number up and called the bank. The check I received looked so real and legitimate.

I reported this to the post office and other officials, but they told me there was little to nothing they could do about it. Since most of them involve wire transfers or western unions, do the people that work for these companies advise people making transfers of such scams, or do they just not even questions big transfers to foreign countries. It seems that these types of scams could be investigated and stopped. It really makes me crazy to think that I almost fell for it. With the economy the way it is, people are even more vulnerable to making a quick buck, only to find themselves deeper in debt as a result.

I started this email to ask for suggestions as to how to get off the scam email list. I really hate to have to change my email address. I have gotten stuff from lotteries, secret shoppers, which I had been looking into secret shopper jobs, being a mule, taking care of dying wishes, you name it I have gotten it. Please advise.

Alice

[Gentle Giant]

Hi Alice,

Short of getting another email address there isn't a lot you can do. You can't make the scammers stop mailing you. This isn't like spam. The best thing to do is get a new email, which is a pain, and never give out the email address to anyone other than family and friends. If you get a scam mail in the new email account never reply to it. Always delete them or mark them as spam.

You can try that (mark as spam and delete) with your current account but it isn't going to stop for a long time. If you ever answer a scam mail that just starts the cycle again. The other thing you can try to do is set your email filters at a higher level to try and filter out some of the emails.

[Ben]

I read an interesting fact ,90% of all emails are spam ,1% of that is porn.
alioop can look at "settings" with the mailer used as more can be done to filter mail as GG says . Do not even click on mail that you do not recognise as a known contact ,or you can be deemed a live address for more spam .
Open your email address and look at Settings /Spam filtering under "help" section .
A New email address is the final solution .

[Ivana]

I had to give up a work address I had for over 5 years since my name ended up on a list...

Was a real pain informing the clients, and the manuals I had published had my "old" e-mail address on it, so any questions from people reviewing them will go unanswered