Is there any way to stop getting fake Lottery emails?

Mark their email as spam every time they ding you. Unlike what that one person said, DO NOT correspond with them. In doing so you just set yourself up for more spamming. I get them once in a while myself and every time I do I spam tag them.

Most all of this sort of fradulant e-mail activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.

For a piss-poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency" (US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"

About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.

"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."

"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."

More at:

http://www.419eater.com/

Enjoy :-)

We are all trying to stop them but we have to work together.

Don't answer them, Block them, Mark their E mails as Phishing and if you can't then mark it as Spam.

The worst thing you can do is to answer them. Once you do then they know they have a "Mughu" (sucker). Most of the originate from Nigeria but now days they could even come from right across the street.

Be careful out there, we're in a new form of criminal element so NEVER give out any information to anyone you do not know.

Besides...if you didn't BUY a ticket..you don't win.

Change your e-mail address from using your name to an address that has a few random letters and additional numbers.

I was constantly getting such scam messages until I changed Internet carriers and went to Yahoo! for my messaging concerns.