Get to Know Your Fraudulent Emails

Sometime early this morning, you open your email and you got like...

"Hello my dear email user, I am deeply saddened to tell you that your real father, who was a Nigerian bazillionaire, owner of thousands of properties in India, Nigeria, United States, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, has just died from a heart attack while on a strip club in Los Ageles, last night. And that you, his only lost son, my very random email user who isn't yet aware that this is a fraudulent email, will inherit all of his properties and legal claims and so on...please email me back with your bank account information."

Whew, writing that brought me back the first time I recieved my first fraudulent inheritace email. I was like twelve and was jumping up and down...only to know it was a fraud an hour later. At least, now I know better.

To make this quick about fraudulent emails;

There are no such thing as unclaimed lottery price, bank conflicted inheritance, replied email, or any other cash related reward for you, and me, and everyone else.

The way it works is that, these people will mostly ask your for your bank account details and use it to steal from you, and worse, use your account as midline account to big time online thefts, which results some people being blamed and arrested.

Here are other practices to avoid fraudulentemails;

1. Don't ever, by all circumstances, believe it when someone tells you you get free money.

2. Also, try to avoid opening emails from unsolicited addresses.

3. Always delete your emails, and never let them get stacked.

4. Don't open your spam folder, just click on empty to delete the contents automatically.

5. Another inevitable practice is to dump your email address and create a new one after half a year or so.

6. Do not display your email address just anywhere, so the spam networks don't get their hands on it.

7. Always keep in mind that ignorance is not an excuse for being used as an accessory of crime - which can be an outcome of simply opening and believing a fradulent email.