Email Scam?

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 11

Im pretty sure that this is an email scam...but more or less im wondering how they got my Email o.o since it is the one i use ONLY for sending stuff from my home PC to my work PC..

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (800,000.00 US DOLLARS) for this month of July 2013 promotion which is organized by The MICROSOFT WINDOWS 8 collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, Gmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
Harkness R. <[email protected]>

So im sure you can see my confusion as like i said this email is used ONLY for sending MYSELF files .... weird ....

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:28 pm

It's a scam and welcome here Smile

Someone else might have CC-ed to others, they might have guessed it or gotten it of a list on the server, but it seems a bit strange.
Worse case scenario you have/had a virus like program going over your computer, but that's not their style, too much work with no money in sight, do a scan and forget I mentioned it.
They usual bulk email so I wouldn't worry about it, change your password and it should be okay.
Return here as others with real brains might have a better answer Embarassed

hope this helped a bit

419Eater is my life Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 353

I've heard of scripts that basically just generate a kerzillion combinations of letters @whatever.com and then they just bulk email all of them. Sure 2/3 might bounce, but the 1/3 that get through is all they care about. So it could just be something like that.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 11

Im actually more annoyed.
Since i have gotten that first one i have since had four or so more in the last week. Now i would LOVE to do the scam-baiting, However im Military, and they tend to frown on you doing things like that...so i just get to sit back and laugh about all of the other success stories.

I dont want to lose this email addy though...Suggestions to block them from my email?

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:30 pm

Unfortunately, once the lads get an email address, they don't let up. You have a couple options: if it's Gmail, you can train it by marking the spam. Gmail uses a smart algorithm that does a pretty good job. If it's another type of email, you can set up filters that look for keywords.

My advice is to read them, chuckle, and delete. Or you can post them in our Surplus forum if they're particularly amusing, and we'll entertain them for a while.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 11

LOL okay, thanks. I'll see what I can with those options. The name i got from the last one was VERY firmiliar to one i saw in here. David Obi?