Hoax inheritance emails

Maeloch · Post by **Maeloch** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:34 pm

Okay I normally get about 5 or 6 of these a week on my yahoo account, normally I just ignore em or have a laugh at the bad english.

However, the latest one claims to be from someone representing one of the london bomb victims (it refers to them by name and a link to the list of the dead on the bbc website) and my sense of humour has dried up a bit.

There any way to deal with these, even if it only means to inconvienance whoever's sending them? (I did read the best way to deal with them is to waste the senders time by stringing them along with more bogus info, but tbh I got better things to do with my time).

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:38 pm

Well, I can personally laugh at any kind of joke...but using stuff like this to trick people to belive they are giving money to a good cause is beyond my sense of humor

/Ankh

Satyn · Post by **Satyn** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:28 pm

you open them? I dont even make the effort of opening those mails, i only read mails from ppl that are in my friendslist otherwise i dont bother.
Can understand its a pain aye but just dont open them anymore cos i dont think you can do anything about it

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:44 pm

Satyn wrote:you open them? I dont even make the effort of opening those mails, i only read mails from ppl that are in my friendslist otherwise i dont bother.
Can understand its a pain aye but just dont open them anymore cos i dont think you can do anything about it

so in other words you open no emails what so ever? ]/Ankh[/B]

Satyn · Post by **Satyn** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:58 pm

Ankh Morpork wrote:so in other words you open no emails what so ever? ]/Ankh[/B]

only yours sexy

Bugzy · Post by **Bugzy** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:01 pm

Ankh Morpork wrote:so in other words you open no emails what so ever? ]/Ankh[/B]

Such politeness Ankh, i bet you have no trouble with the ladies!

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:42 pm

Bugzy wrote:Such politeness Ankh, i bet you have no trouble with the ladies!

Actually I dont...as long as my visa card works

/Ankh

Post by **Lieva** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:47 pm

Maeloch wrote:There any way to deal with these, even if it only means to inconvienance whoever's sending them? (I did read the best way to deal with them is to waste the senders time by stringing them along with more bogus info, but tbh I got better things to do with my time).

just block the sender
might need to do that 5-6 times but they eventually get the message

Hatsepsut · Post by **Hatsepsut** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:26 pm

Maeloch wrote:Okay I normally get about 5 or 6 of these a week on my yahoo account, normally I just ignore em or have a laugh at the bad english.

However, the latest one claims to be from someone representing one of the london bomb victims (it refers to them by name and a link to the list of the dead on the bbc website) and my sense of humour has dried up a bit.

There any way to deal with these, even if it only means to inconvienance whoever's sending them? (I did read the best way to deal with them is to waste the senders time by stringing them along with more bogus info, but tbh I got better things to do with my time).

You could go through the process of trying to track them, of course, and then report them. That would require some research on the subject though, which again would take up your time.