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need to contact yahoo about scam emails i am getting. Saying i have inherited some money and they want to send it to me but i have to first pay a prcessing fee thru western union first. I know it is a scam but i want to stop them from doing this to someone else. Help.

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  • 9 years ago
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    100% scam.

    There is no banker at some overseas bank who suddenly found a dormant account with millions yet can't find a single relative of the account owner who managed to die suddenly in a plane/train/car accident or whatever natural disaster was just on the world news and didn't leave a will. Now this highly educated executive who writes like an 8 year old, must have a foreign partner to help him move this newly discovered wealth to any bank in any other country before his government seizes the cash.

    There is only one scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money by using a fake story, stolen pictures, stolen information on a natural disaster and copied links from a legit website, all while pretending to be several different people all with free email addresses.

    The next email was from one of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "minister/banker/barrister" and has demanded you pay for made-up money transfer, document, certificate, stamp and bank fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

    Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

    Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

    You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

    Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

    Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

    If you google "fake next-of-kin scam", "fraud inheritance bank Western Union scam", "fake Ghana refugee scam", "fraud romance scammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

  • 9 years ago

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN...

    Go to this page and then follow with to clicking the contact yahoo button on the right. Then it takes you to connecting with yahoo about the issue.

    This is a whole new set up on Yahoo Help-- just in the last day or so, and Im not real familiar yet with how it goes from here ( without contacting yahoo myself, in the procedure)

    It appear you go thru the steps and then online support person comes on.

  • 9 years ago

    If you just click the Spam button it automatically gets reported to Yahoo

  • 4 years ago

    I need to report some people of scams being sent to my email website in the spam part of it they are sending me disgusted sick petrifying emails and they are coming from these ignorant sick people other females and I am tired and fed up of it. I am pissed off about it and want it to stop as soon as possible report them and have them locked up or whatever it is going to take to get them to stop doing that. It is very disrespectful disgusting sickening and nasty and trifiling too. Can I get a block put on the email website to not receive nothing like those sick emails ever again.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    602-904-8749 Grace Harris scamming with skype video,...asking for money for an airline ticket...

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    You can't phone yahoo directly, you might want to try to report it wherever you live to a fraud website.

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