Email Scam - Serious Criminal Acts Matter (S-C-A-M)

It’s been a week since you scanned your e-mail messages. Today, you are anticipating a message from an important somebody. So, you opened your e-mail to check for that particular message. You searched in your inbox as well as in your bulk folder, and guess what? There is nothing peculiar in the messages that you’ve read, aside from one message saying that you’ve just inherited a huge sum of money, that only if it’s real, it might have caused you a serious heart attack!

What is more surprising is that, you were being asked about your residential home address, marital status, occupation and even your full name! Why on earth would they ask about your name, if you, as they claimed, is the heir of a million dollar worth of inheritance? They must have known you or even just a basic information about you, like your name, before sending you a shocking notice that you indeed is the beneficiary of an unbelievable wealth.

Well…well…well… if you received an e-mail message like this, do not be fooled because definitely, this is a SCAM! Scam is a smart scheme used to obtain something valuable from other people through fraud or deception. Truly, Serious Criminal Acts Matter -SCAM!

Email scams spread like viruses through the bulk emailing system. Scammers use various tactics to persuade prospective victims to divulge confidential and financially-related information. A victim is asked, insidiously, to give his credit card or bank account details to receive the promised deal. Sometimes, the victim is tricked to buy a bogus item. Only to find out later that he was repeatedly charged for it, although it was never shipped in.

A number of people have became poor victims of these illegal dealings. Some have agreed to meet with the strangers and guess what? They got their rewards – a bigger debt than ever, plus physical abuse and worse, even death!

Don’t be an easy prey. Email scam avoidance is just a chicken feed. For your safety, just hang-on on these four simple things:
1. Do not give a damn replying to unsolicited emails, delete them;
2. Keep in mind that the probability of getting rich quick is one in a million;
3. Spam emails are truly spam emails, most email scams go to spam folders; and most importantly,
4. Money is the root of all evil.